Communities rely on essential hospitals for trauma and other lifesaving care, physician training, emergency response, and other vital services. Essential hospitals, in turn, rely on policymakers for support to keep these services available to all. Learn more about this careful balance.

The proposed revisions would update requirements on patient safety and quality improvement, physician well-being, team-based care & resident work hours.

The funding aims to improve health care delivery through health information interoperability, training, and shared learning resources.

Institute recommends abolishing current Medicare graduate medical education, indirect medical education funding streams in favor of new system

2014 Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals grant applications are due June 3. The program seeks to expand the mental health and substance abuse workforce serving children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth who are at risk for developing or who have developed a recognized behavioral health disorder.

Sixteen association members were among the institutions that received funding.

Report identifies health care postsecondary training and education programs that received federal support