California’s hospitals quickly mobilize and adapt to continue providing patient care during emergencies. These resources provide essential information to support hospitals’ emergency planning and response efforts. Quick Links Search Hospital Disaster Preparedness
Quick Links Search Hospital Disaster Preparedness
HICS Courses About HICS Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is a standardized approach to incident management tailored specifically for hospitals and health care organizations. HICS provides a framework for hospitals to respond quickly and effectively to various incidents and supports hospitals in emergency management planning, response, and recovery capabilities. Key elements of HICS include: Identifying […]
California’s rural hospitals provide care to more than 2 million people and are lifelines and economic pillars for the communities they serve. Many are on the financial brink, facing the possibility of closure and reducing services in their fight to stay open. When a rural hospital closes, the entire community suffers: families lose labor and […]
By mid-2026, all California hospitals will have met the state’s stringent life safety seismic standards, making them among the safest buildings in the state. Hospitals will stand after an earthquake, people will be safe, and hospitals will work with their communities to protect patients’ access to health care. Hospitals face another deadline of Jan. 1, […]
OHCA, established in 2022, will profoundly shape health care in California. Its legislated goals are to slow health care spending growth, promote high-value system performance, and assess market consolidation. CHA is actively engaged in the implementation process, advocating to improve affordability for patients while ensuring hospitals are able to make much-needed investments to improve access, […]
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Some organizations are using bots to pre-screen incoming emails by clicking on all links prior to allowing users to have access to them. This appears to be resulting in a boost in the total clicks that emails appear to be getting – these additional clicks can be considered to be “false positives” because they are not a human that is clicking.