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Final Agenda Released for CHA 2025 Disaster Planning Conference

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What’s happening: The agenda for CHA’s 2025 Disaster Planning Conference, taking place Sept. 9-10 in Sacramento, has been finalized. This year’s agenda highlights responses and solutions from various disasters and provides value to any disaster professional regardless of experience level.  

AHA, Health-ISAC Warn of Potential Terror Threat Targeted at Hospitals

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What’s happening: On March 18, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) saw a social media post indicating concern for a coordinated, multi-city terrorist attack on low-security hospitals in mid-tier cities in the coming weeks, and released a bulletin on March 19 to spread awareness.   What else to know: Although...

CHA Board Member Testifies Before Assembly Health Committee

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What’s happening: Earlier this week, Lori Morgan, MD, MBA, President & CEO of Huntington Health in Pasadena — who is also a member of the boards of both CHA and the American Hospital Association — shared an important perspective before the state Assembly Health Committee on how the Los Angeles fires impacted surrounding communities and...

Upcoming HCAI Webinar Covers Nonstructural Performance Category 5 Water Rationing Plan

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What’s happening: On March 27, the Department of Health Care Access and Information’s (HCAI’s) Seismic Compliance Unit is holding a webinar from 9-10 a.m. (PT) on the requirement for the nonstructural performance category (NPC) 5 water rationing plan, which would support 72 hours of emergency operations.  

DHCS Shares Flexibilities for Hospitals in Light of Los Angeles Fires

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What’s happening: On Feb. 4, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that removed certain barriers to expedite relief for survivors of the Los Angeles fires. The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has also extended audit-related administrative flexibilities due to the fire and has shared with CHA highlights of these flexibilities that may affect...