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While the number of COVID-19 cases in California is beginning to taper on the heels of the largest surge since the pandemic began, hospitals continue to see high numbers of patients needing care — not unexpected since hospitalizations typically lag cases by about two weeks, and the backlog of patients needing other types of care remains long.
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Two years into the worst pandemic in a century — a crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 Californians — every Californian knows firsthand the importance of having quick, reliable access to quality health care.
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Amid the largest surge in cases since the pandemic began — with record numbers of patients needing hospital care and untold numbers of health care workers falling ill with COVID-19 each day — the demand for travel staff, nurses in particular, has never been higher.
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In the throes of the current omicron surge, where hospitalizations are growing daily and the peak is still projected before the end of the month, it’s essential that state health leaders seriously consider every tool at their disposal to alleviate a treacherous gap between the number of Californians who need hospital care and the number of qualified staff available to provide that care.
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For all of you who are on the front lines working extraordinary hours to respond to the unbelievable spread of omicron over the past several weeks, it might have been easy to overlook the Monday release of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2022-23 budget proposal, which includes a slew of important health care initiatives.
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On Monday, the 120 members of the state Legislature — 40 senators and 80 Assembly members — reconvened in Sacramento to begin the second term of this two-year legislative session.
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.It’s been some 22 months since COVID-19 made its insidious presence felt in our state, and every Californian owes the women and men who work in health care the greatest debt of gratitude. The magnitude of the challenges hospitals have faced over the past two years has been matched […]
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In a recent conversation with a California hospital CEO that touched on any number of the headwinds facing hospitals in the years to come, he offered this assessment of the current state of affairs: “The world just isn’t working the way it’s supposed to.”
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This week, the U.S. House and Senate came to an important bipartisan, bicameral agreement to support hospitals and other providers as they continue to reel from the financial devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic — all while bracing for the potential of another surge due to the omicron variant. It has passed in the House of Representatives, and the Senate is expected to vote on it today or tomorrow.
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As CHA continues to press federal agencies to correct the independent dispute resolution process in the second No Surprises Act interim final rule (during negotiations, Congress removed language to ensure a level playing field in arbitration, but the interim rule does the opposite by mandating a benchmark rate), we are asking every hospital in California to reaffirm your commitment to billing and price transparency best practices that deliver for patients, regardless of their ability to pay.
