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CON Matrix & Map Book
The CON matrix identifies facilities, services & equipment subject to regualtion in each states with a CON program. The Map Book illustrates the geographics distribution of CON coverage.
(CON Matrix) (CON Map Book)

AHPA Board Member Honored
AHPA Board Member, John Steen was presented with the Vision Award from the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section (CHPPD) of the American Public Health Association (APHA) at AHPA's March quartley meeting. (Continue Reading)

Quarterly Board Meeting
      To Be Announced

AHPA Newsletter: Health Planning Today
   Newsletter articles due by June 1, 2012.

   Archive of previous issues of Health Planning Today

National Directory * State Certificate of Need Programs*
**Health Planning Agencies * 2011**

The Twenty-Second Edition of the Directory
Traditional Print or Electronic
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Prognosis: Profits - Charlotte, NC Hospitals Get an Unscheduled Fiscal (Charlotte Observer)
Legislators Take a Careful Look at Hospitals� Charity Care(Forbes)
ASCs May Be Required to Obtain a Determination of Need in Massachusetts (Boston Herald)
Rhode Island Reduces Regulation of Hospital Conversions (Modern Healthcare)
The Escalating Battle for Supremecy in the Burbs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Studies citied:

Hospitals� Geographic Expansion In Quest Of Well-Insured Patients (Center for Studying Health System Change)
Hospital Bed Supply and Hospitalization: A Tale of Four Cities (Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health)

2012 County Health Rankings (The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
NH House of Representatives Approves Bill to Waive CON/Licensing for Specialty For-Profit Hospitals (The Concord Monitor)
NJ Hospitals Move Toward Profit Making in a Deregulated Political Environment (The Record of Bergen County)
Health Commissioner Approves Reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital (NJTVONLINE)
New Hampshire May Be in the Process of Repealing CON (Modern Healthcare)
What the Business Roundtable knows about U.S. health care (Washington Post)
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France (WP Wonkblog)

Doctors order more X-rays, not fewer, with computer access (Washington Post: National)

For-Profit Cancer Center Faces Regulatory Barrier in NH (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Washington State to Deny Medicaid Funding to Hospitals for Medically Unnecessary ER Visits (Tacoma News Tribune)
Hospital Outpatient Care Expanding as a Marketing Strategy (HealthLeaders Media)
Why heart doctors are leaving practice to work for hospitals (Philadelphia Media Network)
Legal immigrants Must Be Covered Under Massachusetts UHI (The Boston Globe)
How Might Proton Beam Therapy Be Regulated? (The New York Times)
Seacoast reps. say hospital 'Certificate of Need' program must be reformed (seacoastonline.com)
Study Raises Concerns About a Faster Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer (New York Times)
Maryland to Regulate Outpatient Facilities Performing Abortions (The Baltimore Sun)
Hospital's Heart Diagnoses Surge after Pay Changed (San Francisco Chronicle )
Concentration and Higher Prices and Profits (NIHCM Foundation)
States Find Ways to Reduce Medicaid Spending (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
2011 State of Health Care Quality (NCQA)
Accountable Care Is A Good Idea (Forbes)
2011 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey (EHBS)

Our blogroll provides links to blogs that provide interesting and timely content.
It is not an endorsement in any way of any specific blog.

	The Health Care Blog (NEJM)
	Health Affairs Blog
	The New York Times Health & Wellness
	Kevin, M.D. Medical Weblog
	WSJ.com: Health Blog
	Healthcare Economist
	Not Running a Hospital
	Health Care Renewal
	Health Business Blog
	Managed Care Matters
	Health Disparities Blog
	Health Care Organizational Ethics Blog
	Covert Rationing Blog
	Hospital Impact

Archive of Selected Older News Articles
Links to a collection of selected new items highlighted in past years

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