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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CHA DataSuite Releases Four Quality Analyses
What’s happening: CHA DataSuite released four hospital-specific analyses for inpatient and outpatient quality measure trends, value-based purchasing (VBP), and the hospital-acquired condition (HAC) reduction program.
What else to know: The analyses are intended to provide hospitals a preview of the program’s potential impact for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025, based on the most recent publicly available data and program rules established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
CMS Requests Information on AI Use in Health Care
What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information (RFI) on how artificial intelligence (AI) is used to improve health care delivery, with the goal of informing future rulemaking.
What else to know: CMS will select organizations to showcase their AI products and services to educate the agency and inform future policymaking during a series of “Demo Days” starting in October.
HQI to Hold Virtual Forum on Data-Driven Strategies to Address Hospital Workplace Violence
What’s happening: The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) is hosting a virtual forum on hospital workplace violence on Sept. 26 at noon (PT). Individuals leading and supporting hospital efforts to eliminate workplace violence are invited. Registration is open.
What else to know: The forum will share practical, data-driven approaches hospitals can use to analyze, manage, and prevent workplace violence. The featured speaker will be William Huey, Jr., CPP, CHPA, workplace violence prevention program manager at UC Irvine Health, who is leading an empirically grounded workplace violence prevention program in his organization.
Hospitals Should Encourage Reps. to Sign Letter Opposing 340B Program Changes
What’s happening: A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives is leading a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra about efforts by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to undermine the 340B Drug Discount Program.
What else to know: The deadline for signatures is expected to be extended but since the House could go out of session at any time, it’s urgent to ask your representative to sign now.
CHA Urges Hospitals to Invite Members of Congress to Visit
What’s happening: CHA issued an alert encouraging members to meet with their representatives to discuss key issues like the 340B Drug Pricing Program, financial instability, prior authorization, rural health care, disproportionate share hospital payment cuts, and site-neutral payment policies.
What else to know: Members of Congress will be back in their districts for the entire month of October. These visits will not only strengthen relationships, but also help educate and inform your representative ahead of critical health care policy votes in December.
CHA Disaster Planning Conference Focuses on Lessons Learned
What’s happening: CHA held its annual Disaster Planning Conference in Pasadena on Sept. 10 and 11. Topics included best practices for communication and collaboration in an emergency, treatment of special pathogens, enhancing health care cybersecurity, and fundamentals of radiation protection.
What else to know: More than 500 people attended the conference, including emergency preparedness directors and coordinators; members of hospital disaster planning teams; compliance, nurse, and case managers; and quality and safety executives.
Furthering the Fight for FEMA Funds
Even years after the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, the long tail of the pandemic continues to trip up health care in our state.
CHA Develops New APOT Resource Page for Members
What’s happening: CHA has created a new web page that houses all resources related to ambulance patient offload time (APOT) to assist hospitals with Assembly Bill (AB) 40 compliance.
What else to know: CHA plans to regularly update the web page with AB 40 regulation developments, news, advocacy materials, and information on educational events like the next Emergency Services Forum on May 5, 2025.
California Rural Hospitals Invited to AHA Town Hall
What’s happening: The American Hospital Association (AHA) Region 9 will hold a virtual Rural Advocacy Town Hall on Oct. 9, 10-11 a.m. (PT) through Microsoft Teams. Region 9 includes California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific territories.
What else to know: The call will be led by AHA’s rural advocacy experts in Washington, D.C.: Travis Robey, vice president, political affairs, and Shannon Wu, PhD, director, payment policy. Susan Doherty, vice president for field engagement and rural health segment lead, will also join. All CHA member hospitals with membership in the AHA are welcome to register.
Hospital Fee Program Invoices Due Sept. 25
What’s happening: Payments for the 2022 Hospital Fee Program fee-for-service payment cycle 5 are due to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) on Sept. 25.
What else to know: Invoices were mailed to hospitals from DHCS on Sept. 5.
