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CHA Sounds Alarm on Psych Hospital Staffing Regulations

What’s happening: In recent comments to California’s Health and Human Services Agency, CHA urges the state to mitigate the incredible impact of the impending staff ratio regulations for California’s psychiatric hospitals, the patients they serve, and already overcrowded emergency departments. 

Medicare IRF Review Choice Demonstration – What You Need to Know

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Services to California, forcing all California IRFs to choose between either 100% pre-claim review or 100% post-payment review. That decision must be made by April 14. 

AB 2694 (Alvarez, D-Chula Vista)

AB 2694 would allow a community college district to offer a baccalaureate degree program that is also offered by the California State University (CSU) or University of California (UC) within the same geographic region if the CSU or UC program does not enroll students from that region, or if there are documented unmet regional workforce...

AB 2179 (Patel, D-San Diego)  

AB 2179 would allow any party or witness to a petition for a restraining order related to a credible threat of violence or harassment in the workplace to appear remotely at a hearing. It would also allow filings related to such protective orders to be submitted electronically, beginning July 1, 2027.

AB 2095 (Lee, D-Milpitas)

AB 2095 would make significant changes to California’s criminal background check law. The changes would include the creation of a rebuttable presumption that an applicant’s conviction history is not sufficiently direct and adverse to justify denying the applicant a position. This would apply if the applicant has either completed a sentence for the conviction of...