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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HHS Launches New Program to Enhance Cybersecurity for Health Care Facilities
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What’s happening: The Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health launched a new program to enhance and automate cybersecurity for health care facilities. What else to know: The Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense (UPGRADE) program will invest more than $50 million to create tools for information technology teams...
CHA to Host Seismic Legislation Webinar
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What’s happening: CHA will host a members-only webinar on May 29 at 8:30 a.m. (PT) to discuss seismic legislation updates.
What else to know: Registration is open.
Effort to Strengthen Medi-Cal Scores Major Political Party Endorsements
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Earlier this week, both the California Democratic and California Republican parties — at their respective conventions — endorsed an upcoming ballot measure to strengthen Medi-Cal. This underscores two important facts: First, that health care access is critical to all, regardless of political affiliation, and second, that there is universal recognition that reliability and predictability are essential to support a strong health care delivery system in California.
CHA DataSuite Releases Medicare Hospital FFY 2025 Wage Index and Occupational Mix Analysis
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What’s happening: CHA DataSuite issued a hospital-specific analysis of the Medicare hospital federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025 wage index and occupational mix data. What else to know: The data analyzed is final and is the third of three wage and occupational mix data public use files (PUFs) that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
CHA Issues Alert as Key Seismic Legislation Moves Forward
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What’s happening: Earlier this week, CHA issued an alert encouraging members to contact their state senators to support Senate Bill (SB) 1432, which would extend the 2030 seismic compliance deadline. What else to know: SB 1432 passed the Senate Health Committee 11-0 last month. It will next be considered in the Senate Appropriations Committee on...
CHA to Host Webinar on Doula Access in Hospitals
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What’s happening: CHA will host the members-only Doula Access in Hospitals: What the Law Requires webinar on June 6 at 9:30 a.m. (PT).
What else to know: Registration is open.
CHA to Host Seismic Legislation Webinar
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.
What’s happening: CHA will host a members-only webinar on May 29 at 8:30 a.m. (PT) to discuss seismic legislation updates.
What else to know: Registration is open.
HHS Finalizes Privacy Rule to Protect Reproductive Health Information
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What’s happening: The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a final rule prohibiting entities regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule from using or disclosing protected health information (PHI) to investigate or prosecute patients, providers, or others involved in providing legal reproductive health services. ...
HHS Issues Rules on Nondiscrimination in Health Care
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What’s happening: The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) issued two final rules to strengthen nondiscrimination protections in health care.
What else to know: These rules also aim to ensure equitable access to health care. Hospitals will need to update their policies and procedures to comply with the new rules.
CHA Emergency Services Forum Discussed Patient Volume, Regulations, and Innovation
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What’s happening: CHA hosted the 2024 Emergency Services Forum on May 6 in Newport Beach, California. The forum covered an array of topics, including compliance with legislation, regulating ambulance patient offload time, the impact of recent changes in the behavioral health system on emergency departments (EDs), and a keynote address by RaDonda Vaught, a nurse...
