The newsroom includes access to CHA News, which provides timely information to members every Thursday and is at the core of CHA benefits. In addition, it is also home to resources such as toolkits and talking points designed to help member hospitals and health systems communicate with internal and external audiences on a range of current health care-related issues. Links to CHA media statements and press releases can also be found here.
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Join HQI’s Virtual Forum on Use of Force in Managing Workplace Violence
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What’s happening: CHA’s Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) will hold a virtual forum on Hospital Workplace Violence: Security Personnel and the Continuum of Force on April 18 from noon to 1 p.m. (PT). What else to know: The forum will discuss the pros and cons of various methods used by hospital security officers when responding to...
DMHC Provides Overview of Complaint and Appeals Process
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What’s happening: A recording of the March 26 Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) Complaint and Appeals Process Webinar is now available. What else to know: This complimentary, members-only webinar includes information about DMHC’s role in the independent medical review and complaint process. DMHC staff provided an overview of their jurisdiction and the consumer and provider...
CMS Approves 2024 Private Hospital Directed Payment Preprint
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What’s happening: On April 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the calendar year 2024 Private Hospital Directed Payment (PHDP) preprint for the Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 rating period. What else to know: A copy of the federal approval letter is available on CHA’s Hospital Fee Program web page under Program...
National Health Care Quality Leader Will Be Keynote Speaker at Virtual Summit
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What’s happening: Adaptient founder Lee Erickson, MD, kicks off the Hospital Quality Institute’s (HQI) Patient Safety Evaluation System (PSES) 2024 Virtual Summit on May 21.
What else to know: Erickson’s “Embracing Complexity: Leveraging the Patient Safety Act for High Reliability in Health Care” talk opens HQI’s two-day summit.
CHA Works to Improve Bill on Implicit Bias Training in Maternal Care
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What’s happening: CHA is working closely with Assembly Member Lori Wilson (D-Suisun), author of Assembly Bill (AB) 2319, on amendments to improve the bill’s implicit bias training requirements for perinatal health care providers. What else to know: AB 2319 would expand provisions of the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act (Chapter 533, Statutes of...
CMS Issues Post-Acute Care Payment Proposed Rules
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its proposed payment policies for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), and hospices for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025.
What else to know: Comments on the proposed rules are due to CMS by 2 p.m. (PT) on May 28.
CMS Issues FFY 2025 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS Proposed Rule
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025 inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule.
What else to know: Comments are due to CMS by 2 p.m. (PT) on May 28.
CHA Issues Member Alerts on Critical Access Hospital, Seismic Legislation
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What’s happening: CHA urges members to show support for Senate Bill (SB) 1423, which would provide financial relief to critical access hospitals, and SB 1432, which would modify 2030 seismic standards to address hospital compliance challenges. What else to know: Information below details action to take, timing, and resources for hospitals that want to show...
As Office of Health Care Affordability Approaches First Target, Key Factors Continue to Be Ignored
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With no action taken at the March board meeting of the Office of Health Care Affordability, the eight-member body has just two meetings left before it is legally required to set the first health care spending growth target in California’s history.
Panel Explores Reasons for Hospital Maternity Ward Closures
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What’s happening: The closure of labor and delivery units in California hospitals was the focus of a recent panel discussion sponsored by the nonprofit news organization CalMatters. Peggy Wheeler, CHA vice president, policy, appeared on the panel. What else to know: The discussion “No Deliveries: When Maternity Wards Close, Where Do Patients Go?” focused on...
