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A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found an estimated 40.9 percent of U.S. adults have avoided medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, including 12 percent who avoided urgent or emergency care and 31.5 percent who avoided routine care.

September is National Sepsis Awareness Month, encouraging education about and a better understanding of this medical emergency. Learning to recognize the signs and symptoms of sepsis—and knowing the importance of immediate medical attention—can save lives.

Recently released analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that nearly 40 percent of patients saw reductions in their access to one or more types of care as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. HAP has created a special webpage and resources to encourage Pennsylvanians to get their health care back on track.

PatientPing has announced an endorsed partnership with HAPevolve, a subsidiary company of The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP), to streamline care and improve patient outcomes across health systems and hospitals throughout Pennsylvania. The partnership will leverage PatientPing’s extensive Pennsylvania network and its suite of care collaboration solutions to enable providers to share real-time information about patients’ care encounters across providers and settings.

During April, when Pennsylvania hospitals were looking forward to the resumption of scheduled surgeries and procedures, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and a group of national health care and provider organizations, issued a joint statement that outlined a roadmap for resuming elective surgeries. Yesterday, the AHA and partnering organizations released an updated version of their roadmap.

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) is proud to honor the winners of the 2020 Achievement Awards. The winning initiatives celebrate hospitals leveraging partnerships and inventive ideas to improve patient care and outcomes and invest in the specific health needs of communities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) awarded the Morehouse School of Medicine as the recipient of a new $40 million initiative to fight COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minority, rural, and socially vulnerable communities.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled the creation of the Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics in an effort to reduce regulatory and administrative burden. The new office is an outgrowth of the agency’s Patients over Paperwork Initiative which was implemented to eliminate unnecessary, duplicative, and costly requirements and regulations.

Pennsylvania’s Patient Safety Authority (PSA) has released its 2019 Annual Report. The report highlights activities of the PSA, including its September 2019-launched quarterly peer-reviewed journal, Patient Safety. It also includes an analysis of patient safety events reported into the Pennsylvania patient safety reporting system (PA-PSRS), a secure database that collects health care facility data on “serious events” and “incidents.”

Pennsylvania health care consumers and providers have the opportunity this week to celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week.