Employment Benefits
The employees who serve our member hospitals are employed by CHA’s sister company, the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS). CAHHS employees appreciate the additional benefits they receive besides the monetary amounts they see on their paycheck. Our outstanding benefits package is a valuable portion of what employees regularly scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week receive from CAHHS. Generally, employees are eligible for all benefits the first of the month following employment. We offer multiple options through our comprehensive benefits program.
CAHHS offers four medical plan options:
- Kaiser HMO
- Kaiser High Deductible HMO
- Blue Shield HMO
- Blue Shield High Deductible PPO
Two dental plan options:
- Delta Dental Low
- Delta Dental High
One vision plan option:
- Vision Service Plan
Pre-tax dollars may be used to pay for non-covered health care expenses as well as eligible dependent care expenses.
CAHHS provides the following benefits at no cost to the employee:
- Life/AD&D insurance coverage equal to two times annual base pay
- Business travel accident Insurance coverage equal to two times annual base pay
- Supplemental Workers Compensation and State Disability Leave — designed to integrate with California State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Worker’s Compensation benefits
- Long-term disability insurance coverage equal to 67% of pre-disability earnings
Accruals begin immediately according to the schedule below:
- 18 days for up to 2 years of employment
- 21 days for 2 – 5 years of employment
- 25.5 days for 5 – 9 years of employment
- 30 days for 9+ years of employment
We provide 10 paid holidays per calendar year:
- New Year’s Day
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday
- President’s Day
- Memorial Day
- Juneteenth
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Day after Thanksgiving
- Christmas
A confidential, voluntary program is available to employees and their family members that provides up to 3 free counseling visits per incident for personal or family issues. In addition, employees and their family members may receive free legal, financial and career counseling and childcare referrals through this program.
The Healthcare Associations of California 401(k) plan makes it easy for eligible employees to save for retirement through pre-tax payroll deductions. In addition, the plan includes both a non-elective and discretionary contribution from CAHHS.
CAHHS encourages employees to further their professional development through education. Employees are eligible for tuition reimbursement up to $1,000 per year toward any job-related degree or professional certification.
- Company-subsidized parking
- Free Transit Passes (at most locations)
- Employee Service Awards and Recognition
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Social Events
The above is a brief overview of the CAHHS Benefits Program. For more details please refer to official plan documents. Should there be any discrepancy between the overview above and the official plan documents, the plan documents will prevail.
Job Opportunities
Salary range $150-180k
Are you seeking an opportunity to put your professional skills and leadership mindset to work in a highly impactful way? Consider joining the California Hospital Association, a Sacramento-based, non-profit trade association serving California’s hospitals and helping them provide care and other services in their communities.
About Us
The California Hospital Association advocates for better, more accessible health care for all Californians. We represent nearly 400 hospitals throughout the state and are the largest state hospital association in the country providing information, resources, and perspective to state and federal policy makers, informing decisions that affect 40 million Californians. We work collaboratively with hospital leaders, legislators, stakeholders, and each other — based on our One Team culture, which is built on the idea that we are stronger together.
About the Role
We are looking for a Director External Communications & Media Relations to lead the implementation of earned media strategies, cultivating strong relationships with key media outlets and often serving as a lead spokesperson with national, state, and local media. In addition, this role provides critical input into efforts to influence policymakers on critical issues through other channels, including paid advertising, social media, and more. The ideal candidate is a collaborative media relations professional with exceptional writing skills, strong interpersonal skills, and a deep understanding of California’s health care landscape, its politics, and its media environment. This individual should thrive in a fast-paced policy and advocacy environment, delivering both rapid response products and long-term strategic thinking.
This is a hybrid position located in downtown Sacramento requiring four days a week (Monday – Thursday) in the office; Fridays are remote.
You Will
- Cultivate and maintain proactive, productive relationships with key members of the media across major, mid-size, and small media markets in California and at a national level. Routinely provide the media with information about health care issues (reports, CHA-generated materials, third-party information), pitch news stories, editorials, etc.
- Leverage strong, trusting relationships with reporters in service of coverage that helps legislators and the public understand the challenges facing California’s health care system at large, hospitals’ unique role in that system, and the obstacles hospitals face in meeting their mission of care.
- Proactively initiate responses to hospital- and health care-related issues that surface in traditional and digital media outlets. Work collaboratively with advocacy, policy, and data teams to mobilize and hone responses.
- Respond to media inquiries, coordinating with communications, advocacy, policy, and data teams.
- Working with the Communications Team, develop and disseminate press releases, op-eds, talking points, media statements, opinion editorials, FAQs, and other communications to internal and external audiences.
- With support from Manager, Communications, maintain an active, professional presence on social media (with journalists and policymakers as key audiences) to leverage digital channels to share critical information, respond to issues of interest, promote hospitals’ good work, debunk misleading statements, and advance policy ideas.
- Plan and execute far-reaching media opportunities including press conferences, media calls, reporter roundtables, editorial board discussions, and more.
- With SVP and VP, Communications, contribute to development of an effective and efficient annual communications strategy to support short-, mid-, and long-term advocacy and policy goals.
- Generate opportunities for regional hospital associations, member hospitals, allies, and others to serve as spokespeople for key issues, in service of overarching media strategy. Respond to media inquiries on behalf of regional associations.
- Develop and maintain a CHA- and hospital-based cohort of media-trained spokespeople on a variety of key issues. Work closely with communications leads at member hospitals to maintain a current list of media-ready spokespeople from the field.
- During campaigns where earned media will be needed, work closely with Advocacy Team to lead member activation for story placement, op-eds, etc.
- Develop, with Communications Team, annual strategies for enhancing organic social media strategy, website content, and other forms of owned media (blogs, thought leadership opportunities).
- With SVP and VP, Communications, provide input into annual and ad hoc paid media strategy.
- Serve as a media relations “in-house expert” for CHA members.
- Coordinate speaker or media training, as needed.
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned.
You Will Get
In this role you will find fulfilling work serving the hospital field and receive competitive pay, generous benefits, and a terrific, collaborative, and team-oriented environment.
How to Apply
If this position fits with your experience and career goals, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit your resume and cover letter (including salary requirement) to: workforcenow.
Because we are a federal contractor, we are required to make sure you know that all qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic, or disability.