For the first time, CHA’s Disaster
Planning for California Hospitals conference will take place
on Sept. 11. To honor those who gave everything they had —
and those who continue to put their lives at risk — CHA has
invited a Ground Zero 9/11 first responder, Glen Klein, to help
us remember how that day has shaped our world.
Over the weekend, the Legislature’s budget conference committee
completed its work of negotiating the differences between the
Governor’s, Assembly’s, and Senate’s budgets. The Senate and
Assembly now need to approve the final budget bill and the
accompanying trailer bills and send them to the Governor no later
than June 15, for his approval by July 1.
Every day, hospitals stand united to prevent and reduce violence.
To support today’s Hospitals
Against Violence national awareness day, Scripps Health CEO
Chris Van Gorder speaks
out on behalf of workplace and community safety in a new
CHA-produced video clip.
This week’s special elections yielded important results for
hospitals, including the defeat of a Los Angeles ballot measure
that would have taxed hospitals. Measure EE, proposed by the Los
Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), would have enacted a
parcel tax (a type of property tax ) to generate money that would
support smaller class sizes and staffing increases for the next
12 years. Hospitals in the LAUSD would have been subject to
the new tax.
With the Legislature required to send the Governor a final budget
no later than June 15, budget negotiations are in full swing at
the Capitol. The budget conference committee will address the
many discrepancies between proposals from the Senate, the
Assembly, and the Governor, with plans to complete its work by
the end of this weekend.
Yesterday, CHA
submitted comments on the Department of Managed Health Care’s
(DMHC)
draft guidance implementing its recently finalized Knox-Keene
licensure regulation. The
regulation greatly expands the types of financial
arrangements requiring a license, and hospitals are
encouraged to consult with counsel to determine how the new
requirements will impact their organization.
Last week, a federal district court
ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
exceeded its statutory authority when it implemented a 30%
reduction to 2019 Medicare reimbursement rates — included in the
federal fiscal year (FFY) 2019 outpatient prospective payment
system (OPPS) final rule — for certain pharmaceutical drugs
covered by the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is calling for an enforceable
statewide “right to shelter” mandate that would require
communities to have enough shelter space or other housing to
accommodate their homeless populations, a strategy modeled after
a decades-long program in New York City.
NEW YORK — It’s late on a Tuesday night during
the worst measles
outbreak in decades, and doctors, nurses and other
health-care providers are gathered at a medical center to learn
better ways of talking to parents who are reluctant to vaccinate
their children.
Blima Marcus, an oncology nurse, leads the two-hour session on
how to do a better job listening to and responding to parents’
questions — and, in the process, cultivating their trust. The
key, she says, is hearing people’s questions
about the science behind vaccines, and addressing those
directly.
Despite hospital systems and health officials calling out the
need for more primary care doctors, graduates of U.S. medical
schools are becoming less likely to choose to specialize in one
of those fields.
A record-high number of primary care positions was offered in the
2019 National Resident Matching Program — known to doctors as
“the Match.” It determines where medical students will study in
their chosen specialty after graduation. But this year, the
percentage of primary care positions filled by fourth-year
medical students was the lowest on record.
Held Sept. 10-11 in Pasadena, topics include lessons learned from
active shooter events, integrating business continuity and
emergency preparedness, creating resiliency across the continuum
of care, and earthquake early warning systems.
Join us October 14-15 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento
and learn strategies and take home tools for achieving reliable
care and delivering value to each patient, each time, and in each
community.
CHA’s digital community of more than 1 million supporters, has
been awarded two national health care advertising awards for its
promotion of one hospital’s efforts to care for homeless
patients, as well as its work to raise awareness of and
destigmatize mental health issues.
In an effort to reinforce to lawmakers the need to address
California’s severe health care workforce shortages, CHA just
completed a month-long social media campaign to position
hospitals’ leadership role in developing the current and future
health workforce.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) has released a series of resources intended to help
providers incorporate, in their disaster planning, strategies to
care for patients with serious mental illness.
CHA’s latest guidebook, Discharge Planning for Homeless
Patients, explains California’s new homeless patient
discharge planning law and offers insights to help hospitals
prepare to return homeless patients to the community.
July 23, Sacramento (Location Change) July 23, New Live Stream Option
July 25, Glendale
Significant changes to Medi-Cal and Medicare reimbursement are imminent – is your hospital ready? Over the past year, there’s been a lot of activity at federal and state level that will directly impact how hospitals are reimbursed, which can lead to transforming the way care is delivered in the future.
CHA’s Disaster Planning for California Hospitals conference is the largest statewide conference developed by and for California hospitals. Mark your calendars for this annual event where you will bolster your emergency preparedness knowledge and learn about innovative programs, tools and lessons learned from across the industry.
Throughout the year, CHA offers numerous programs designed to
meet the needs of hospital executives. Whether you work in human
resources, risk management, reimbursement, disaster planning or
plant operations we are likely to have a program that will help
you do your best for your facility.
CHA hosts events year-round that give providers of health care
services and products the opportunity to meet face-to-face with
hospital executive management. Our conference and symposiums each
have unique audiences — disaster planners and their teams,
medical rehabilitation experts, skilled nursing professionals,
behavioral health care providers and rural hospitals.
Learn about other opportunities to support hospitals andways to
get involved with the California Hospital Association.
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CHA’s EMTALA Manual explains the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to minimize risk and help hospitals avoid lawsuits. The manual is full of sample scenarios and answers to hundreds of real-world questions, and provides practical guidance to hospitals, physicians, and nurses to simplify compliance with patient anti-dumping laws.
The 2018 edition has been updated to reflect five more years’ experience with the law, and:
CHA’s Hospital Compliance Manual is the only publication written for hospital compliance officers that integrates California with federal law on high-risk compliance areas. Written by Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC, and CHA, the manual focuses on high-risk compliance issues and the key components of an effective compliance program.
This comprehensive resource addresses all state and federal laws related to the privacy of health information, and provides guidance to help hospitals comply with increasingly complex regulations. Laws covered include:
