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Learning from Your Peers – The Process of Returning Your Volunteers Zoom Meeting Session

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The Learning from Your Peers – The Process of Returning Your Volunteers Zoom session took place Wednesday, September 16. Thank you to Moderator, Roseanna Galindo, CAVS, and presenter panelists Layah Blacksberg, and Patricia Dooley, CAVS, for sharing your process of returning volunteers to the hospital environment. 

Overview

As COVID-19 cases stabilize in many counties and patients begin returning for elective procedures, volunteer leaders are receiving approval to bring volunteers back to hospital operations. 

CEO Message: The Long and Winding Road

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Earlier this week, Governor Newsom shared some encouraging news about California’s COVID-19 positivity rate, which dropped by 2 percentage points, to 4%, over the past 14 days compared to the two weeks prior. 

We’re moving in the right direction, but we would be remiss to think we’ve truly turned the corner on this pandemic. Rather, this progress means we must be even more vigilant, to guard against a premature resumption of activities that could set us back months. 

Post-Acute Care Quality Reporting Program Tip Sheets Available

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued several post-acute care quality reporting program COVID-19 tip sheets to help providers understand CMS’ public reporting strategy for the program during the public health emergency. 

COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Law Takes Effect Sept. 19

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On Sept. 9, the Governor signed into law AB 1867, California’s COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave bill, which goes into effect on Sept. 19. The law is intended to ensure that all employees in California have access to two weeks of supplemental paid sick leave if they are ordered to quarantine or isolate by a health care provider or public health officer, or if they are prohibited from working by their employer due to health concerns related to the potential transmission of COVID-19.

Updates for the Week of Sept. 7

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following updates this week:​

Guidance for Representing Telehealth Encounters in QRDA I Format for eCQMs
Introduction to the LTCH Quality Reporting Program Web-Based Training
Introduction to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Web-Based Training

CMS Announces New Care Compare Website

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a redesigned website to provide consumers access to information on health care providers, including performance on quality and resource use measures.  

Coordinator Communications

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We currently have a great opportunity for a professional with 1+ years’ experience in corporate communications or digital advocacy communications activities. This position will maintain and help develop web content for multiple sites within the California Hospital Association family, ensuring that content is relevant, fresh, engaging, navigable, intuitive, and well-organized. In addition, this position is responsible for producing multiple mass-marketing and communications emails and newsletters using marketing template and customer relationship management database applications.

Federal Changes and DHCS Proposed Changes Affecting Rural Health Clinics Webinar

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Originally recorded September 24, 2020

Recording

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Overview

Are you aware of the changes that have been made by CMS and proposed changes by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) that will affect every single rural health clinic? While some of these changes are final during the COVID-19 period, and others being proposed by DHCS are subject to CMS approval, you will still want to be aware of the financial impact they may have on your rural health clinic.

SNFs Encouraged to Participate in Quality Improvement Initiatives

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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued All Facilities Letter (AFL) 20-68, encouraging skilled-nursing facilities to confer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Health Safety Health Network rights to the Health Services Advisory Group, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization for California. Under the direction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the advisory group partners with nursing facilities throughout California to support improvements in quality of care and to help prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. To support this effort, the advisory group offers real-time data to SNFs using select NHSN data.

To ensure each facility’s data are updated, CDPH requests that all nursing facilities confer rights to the advisory group to view data in the health safety network by Sept. 30. There is no cost to participate. To learn how to confer rights, see the AFL and the advisory group instructions.

Summary of Sept. 1 CDPH Call
CDPH has provided a summary of its most recent weekly call with health care facilities.

Upcoming CMS Calls
CMS will host calls this week for nursing homes, dialysis organizations, and nurses. Call details are as follows:

Nursing Homes: Sept. 9 at 1:30 p.m. (PT)
Dial: (833) 614-0820
Passcode: 5475686
Audio webcast
 
Dialysis Organizations: Sept. 9 at 2:30 p.m. (PT)
Dial: (833) 614-0820
Passcode: 6925269
Audio webcast
 
Nurses: Sept. 10 at noon (PT)
Dial: (833) 614-0820
Passcode: 5767207
Audio webcast

COVID SNF Rates Extended for New Rate Year

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The Department of Health Care Services has posted updated information on its website about reimbursement rates for skilled-nursing facility services, including an additional 10% reimbursement applied to per diem rates effective March 1 during the COVID-19 public health emergency. For the new rate year that began Aug. 1, the COVID-19 increased amounts will remain unchanged. For providers to receive the additional reimbursement, they should bill at the temporarily increased rates established by the department.

Upon expiration of the state public health emergency or national emergency, whichever occurs first, long-term care reimbursements will revert to their 2020-21 per diem rates. DHCS will post an update on its website to inform providers when the emergency period and the additional reimbursement expire.