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
   Next quarterly newsletter articles due by March 1, 2011.

   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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• Why heart doctors are leaving practice to work for hospitals (Philadelphia Media Network)

• Legal immigrants Must Be Covered Under Massachusetts UHI (The Boston Globe)

• Florida Study Panel Cannot Compare Public and Private Hospitals (The Miami Herald)

• How Might Proton Beam Therapy Be Regulated? (The New York Times)  

• Seacoast reps. say hospital 'Certificate of Need' program must be reformed (seacoastonline.com)

• Utilization of Diagnostic Imaging Is Greatly Increased by Physician Ownership (Med Page Today)

• 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 ) 

• More Evidence of the Association Between Hospital Market

• 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)

• Insurers Weigh In on Health Care Law (NYT)

• 7 Companies Offering Health Care Benefits to Part-Time Workers (ABC)

• South Carolina's Rural Hospitals Are in Critical Condition (The State)

• CT scans for lung cancer trigger debate (Washington Post)

• Illinois CON Board to Decide Future of a Cook County Safety-Net Hospital (AP)

• Hospitals: The Strong Get Stronger, the Weak Get Weaker (American Medical News)

• Georgia Questions Hospitals’ Community Benefits (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

• Catholic Hospital Mergers Can Create Problems of Access and Continuity (Louisville Courier-Journal)

• Study Finds Doctors Often Too Quick to Try Costly Procedures to Clear Arteries (Wall Street Journal)

• NH Hospitals: State budget cuts ‘devastating' (New Hampshire Union Leader)
  

• Trying to fill a hole in medical clinic regulation (LA Times)

• State Regulatory Process at Odds with Chicago Reality (Op Ed - Chicago Tribune)

• The Department of Health and Human Services Releases a Comprehensive New Website for Community Health Data, the Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW)

• Health Planning for a Major Nuclear Emergency is Almost Nonexistent (ProPublica)

• New Database Tracks State Healthcare Reform Initiatives
  (Information Week)

• Florida Governor Wants a Study of Whether the State’s Public Hospitals Are Needed (The Miami Herald)

• Community Health Center Funding Opposed by Congressional Republicans as Part of the Affordable care Act (The Boston Globe)

• Medicare Spending Adjustments Alter Findings on Regional Costs (Kaiser Health News)

• Maryland Cardiologists Call for More State Oversight of
  Cath Labs (Medscape)

• Hospital readmissions take toll in Pennsylvania (Tribune Review)

• Hospital Charity Care Funding Becomes an Issue in Florida
  (Miami Herald)

• Doctor-Owned Radiation Therapy Centers Drive Up Utilization (The Washington Post)

• Health insurers pushed to cut rates (Boston Globe)

• Michigan Finally Funds its Trauma Network (Crain’s Detroit Business)

• Treating Heart Failure: Higher Volume Equals Higher Cost (Reuters)

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
	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