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CHA now offers CD recordings of live web seminars to help hospitals understand ever-changing regulations and their impact on operations. Hospitals can view programs at their convenience to learn from subject matter experts and gain a better understanding of current issues.
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Led by Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), 14 members of the California Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter this week to President Obama urging the administration to alter its proposed inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule, which would decrease Medicare hospital payments by as much as $300 million in California for fiscal year (FY) 2011.
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Vision
Volunteer Services is an organization that can lessen the economic burden on the system, one that becomes part of a whole team whose sole purpose is to heal and comfort.
Mission
Volunteers assigned to each hospital department.
Volunteers creating a measurable impact in keeping California’s hospitals open.
Uniformity of programs and services in California’s hospital volunteer programs.
Volunteers creating a measurable impact in health care advocacy campaigns.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a consumer-focused website — www.HealthCare.gov — mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The website provides information on ACA implementation, quality rankings for local health care providers and information on preventive services.
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This comprehensive listing contains member hospitals, health facilities, health systems and their executive management staffs throughout California.
To facilitate networking, complimentary copies of the directory are being sent to member hospital CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs, human resources executives and media spokespeople. The directory also is being sent to key health care system executives, and Executive, Associate and Personal members.
More than 6,500 top management staff are listed, along with their titles, addresses and phone numbers.
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Download the Patient Rights Poster for free or order a copy for only $2. (Last updated March 2017)
Note: To be legally compliant, poster must be readable and legible therefore this poster should be printed on 11″ x 17″ (tabloid) paper.
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California and federal laws give hospital patients many rights. Hospitals must notify patients of these rights by giving patients a handout and/or by putting posters up in the hospital.
CHA has developed a sample handout that hospitals may use to notify patients of their rights under state hospital licensing regulations, the Medicare Conditions of Participation, and The Joint Commission. In addition, CHA publishes a corresponding poster.
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CHA is committed to helping hospitals improve quality, reduce medical errors and adverse events, and maximize patient safety. To further those efforts, CHA and the Regional Associations established the Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) in 2013 to realize statewide impact of improving patient safety and quality care for all Californians, to accelerate the rate of improvement and to advance California as a national leader in quality performance. HQI’s broad scope of work includes reducing patient harm, reducing health care-associated infections, reducing hospital readmissions, improving patient experience and improving maternal/child outcomes. Hospitals and health systems that belong to HQI — a voluntary organization — use it as an excellent source of performance data and analytics to focus improvement opportunities and take best practices to scale. In addition, CHPSO, the nation’s largest and longest operating patient safety organization, is a division of HQI.
CHA also regularly tracks and reports on important developments in the public reporting of hospital quality data, including OSHPD and Hospital Compare website data, and keeps members informed of regulations related to pay for quality reporting and performance.