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COVID-19 Tracker Update Includes New Retroactive Reporting Feature

CHA has worked closely with the California Department of Public Health to create a process that will allow for retroactive weekend and holiday COVID-19 reporting at the state level. To allow for this functionality, CHA is updating the COVID-19 tracker within SmartSheet. These changes will go live on Aug. 24, and hospitals will be able to ...

A Return to the ‘HEART’ of Health Care

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Over the past two years, California’s health care workers have been stretched to their limits. This includes you, our state’s hospital leaders, who have had to reassess and reconfigure daily if not hourly to meet the ever-changing and unprecedented demands brought by the pandemic.  

Helping All Californians Reach the Highest Standards of Health

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A comprehensive, multi-level strategy is needed to eliminate (health) disparities. Broad sectors – including healthcare providers, their patients, payors, health plan purchasers, and society at large – should be made aware of the healthcare gap between racial and ethnic groups in the United States. — Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic disparities in Health Care. 

Kaiser Health News Surveys Hospitals on Patient Billing Policies

The American Hospital Association (AHA) updated members on Aug. 11 that Kaiser Health News has begun contacting some hospitals and health systems as part of a survey on financial assistance and billing and collections policies. The project is being produced in partnership with NPR and will be featured online and on radio later this year,...