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CEO Message: Our Community, Our Duty

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Every so often (it seems incredibly frequent these past few years), something happens that shakes every good person’s sense of moral justice. In May 2020, it was the killing, on camera, of an unarmed black man who pleaded — for eight minutes and 46 seconds — with the officer whose knee was pressed into his neck, for breath … for his mother … for his life. 

CEO Message: Budget Proposal Is Another Blow Hospitals Can’t Take

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Now is the time to call your state assemblymember and senator to tell them the following:

Hospitals need financial relief now.
Reject the Governor’s budget proposal that would cut managed care payments to hospitals for inpatient care.

Embedded in the state’s latest budget proposal, as the administration looks to make up for the massive losses to state coffers driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, is a recommendation that would upend the way Medi-Cal managed care plans are paid.

CEO Message: Unprecedented Times Call for Unprecedented Measures

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resurrected many well-worn aphorisms: “New normal,” “Unlike anything we’ve seen before,” “Once-in-a-lifetime crisis.” 

These phrases can help us make sense of circumstances and events that have been challenging to cope with and even more difficult to recover from. Of course, they do little to help where it’s needed most. 

CEO Message: Taking Care of People, No Matter What

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For nearly 70 years, hospitals across the country have come together for one week each year to celebrate the special role they play in their communities. This year, however, like so many parts of our lives, National Hospital Week feels different. 

CEO Message: Deep Gratitude During National Nurses Week

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This week is National Nurses Week, and never has there been a more important moment to recognize and honor the women and men who have chosen nursing as a profession. To all the nurses who will continue this week to sacrifice and to heal others: with deepest gratitude, thank you. 

CEO Message: Balancing Act

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Over the past six weeks, the response of California’s hospitals to the COVID-19 threat has been nothing short of awe-inspiring. 

You were called on to act, and you sprang into action — upending normal work in a matter of days to prepare for the worst this pandemic could bring to California. This was done without fear or hesitation, because hospitals were needed, and you answered the call. 

CEO Message: Back in Session (Sort Of) 

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Last week, the state Senate and Assembly began their slow creep toward a return to minimal business, holding teleconference hearings on COVID-19, its impact on California, and how the pandemic will affect this and next year’s budgets. 

CEO Message: Vigilance and Readiness

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“… even areas that [stemmed their outbreaks] so well originally as people thought now are realizing that unless you can completely suppress this virus, it’s gonna come back, and it’s gonna keep coming back as long as you have susceptible people.” – Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, April 3, 2020 

CEO Message: Working Now to Preserve Hospitals’ Long-Term Health

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Right now, as California leans in to the COVID-19 storm, hospital leaders have their heads down, laser focused precisely where they should be: on how to best care for patients and communities in the middle of this global health crisis. And their commitment extends well beyond the life and surge of the current coronavirus pandemic. 

CEO Message: Inspiration from Preparation

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“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln

If some of the epidemiological models are right, California is projected to see a major surge of coronavirus patients in about a week.

The precise volume varies, depending on which factors, like the effectiveness of social distancing, are plugged into the algorithm. And if you spend enough time with the data, things can start to feel bleak, because this challenge is unlike any we’ve faced before.