Announcements

  Quarterly Board Meeting
  May 16, 2008, Little Rock, Arkansas.

  AHPA Newsletter (Previous Issues)

• 4th quarter 2007 newsletter released  December 18, 2007.

• Next quarterly newsletter articles due by June 1, 2008.

2007 National Directory

National Directory * State Certificate of Need Programs* Health Planning Agencies * 2007

The 2007 Edition of the Directory is now  available (More..)

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 News

• CON "Streamlined" in Florida (The Orlando Sentinel )
  
  
• Surging into Bethlehem: "Surge Capacity " Becomes a Political Issue (The Washington Post )
  
  
• Iowa's Rural Hospitals Are No Longer Subject to CON for Replacement Facilities (The Chicago Tribune )
  
  
• Cancer Care Gets Contentious in Tennessee (The Tennessean
  
  
• CON to Limit Proton Therapy in Michigan (The New York Times )
  
  
• HANYS Issues Report Card on Report Cards; Only Governmental Reports Rate an "A"
  
  
• FTC Supports Bill to Eliminate CON in Florida (Jacksonville Business Journal )
  
  
• Georgia "Reform?" (The Chicago Tribune )
  
  
• Controversy over proliferation of heart transplant centers in Chicago (The Chicago Tribune )
  
  
• Boston Hospital Squabble (Boston.com)
  
  
• Georgia Legislature Acts on CON Deregulation (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Georgia Legislature Poised to Make Major Changes to CON ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution ):
  
  
• Kentucky Legislature Circumvents Its Own CON Law (The Louisville Courier-Journal)
   
• CON Criticized Over Delays in Alabama ( The Huntsville Times )
  
  
• Support for CON in Fairbanks (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  ):
   
• "Free Market"  Group's Report Advocates End to CON in Alabama (The Huntsville Times )
  
  
• Tennessee Legislation Would Remove the Rights of Nursing Home Residents (Tennessee Citizen Action ):
  
  
• Florida Governor Critical of CON's Role in State (Orlando Sentinel ):
  
  
• Report Cards Are About High Standards for Providers, Not Consumer-Directed Healthcare (The Oregonian )
  
  
• Public Health Is the Most Effective Way of Doing Community Health Planning (The Washington Times )
  
  
• "Single Specialty" Surgery Centers Now Exempt from CON in Georgia (The Jacksonville Times-Union )
  
  
• Contentious Factors Weigh-In on Alabama CON Decision (The Huntsville Times )
  
  
• Protons and Pesos (The New York Times)
  
  
• Ever Higher High Tech, but Is It Cost Effective? (The New York Times ):
  
  
• Physician Owned Surgicenters May Be Found to Be Illegal in NJ (The Philadelphia Inquirer )
  
  
• "Safety Net" Community Hospitals Are Endangered All Over the Country (Alternet  )
  
  
• Angioplasty/Cardiac Surgery Debate Flares in NJ (Philadelphia Inquirer )
  
  
• Medicaid Programs Rated Nationally (Public Citizen)
  
  
• Private Investors Promote Substandard Nursing Homes (The New York Times )
   
• When Evidence Based Medicine Conflicts with Politics (The Washington Monthly )
   
• Unwholesome Competition (BizJournals)
   
• Number of Uninsured Americans Hits Record High (Washington Post )
  

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