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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is calling and conducting visits to hospitals that it has identified through a new hospital dashboard it is using internally. CDPH is reiterating that this dashboard focuses on hospitals currently experiencing surges and most likely to experience them.
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CHA has submitted comments to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on its proposed regulations on hospital adverse events.
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Join us on Aug. 20 from 1 to 1:30 p.m. (PT) to see a demo of the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform, HQI’s most dynamic analytical resource yet. The platform shows how your hospital compares to others and can identify challenge areas and trends to improve performance in critical areas. It gives you:
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar on Aug. 24 at 11 a.m. (PT) to preview Care Compare, the updated website for quality information that will standardize and combine eight existing Compare sites.
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On Monday, CHA issued an alert urging hospitals to write and call — by Aug. 24 — their assemblymember, and ask them to support Senate Bill (SB) 758 (Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge) related to the 2030 seismic mandate, and oppose SB 977 (Monning, D-Carmel) giving the Attorney General unprecedented oversight over hospital transactions. CHA has developed a template letter and background documents about both bills for hospitals’ use.
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The national supply chain strategy, FEMA reimbursement, crisis care guidelines, and managing hospital surges during a health care pandemic — register for the CHA Disaster Planning Virtual Conference, Sept. 15-16 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., to hear about these topics and get backstage access to speakers.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following updates this week:
SNF Provider Preview Reports Now Available
Now Available: Web-Based Course on Hospice QRP Education and Training Resources by Topic with Hotlinks for Easy Access
CMS proposes updated national coverage determination for artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices
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The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an additional opportunity for hospitals to apply for Provider Relief Funds. Specifically, providers who missed the June 3 deadline to apply for funding equal to 2% of their total patient care revenue (from the $20 billion portion of the $50 billion Phase 1 general distribution) and certain providers who experienced a change in ownership — making them previously ineligible for Phase 1 funding — will be eligible to apply for financial relief.
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Through all of it – COVID-19, work/home adjustments, a brief sense of hope in June that this would be short-lived – the 2020 legislative session has slogged on. Now, there are just a couple of weeks left, and two of the most important issues for California’s hospitals remain in play:
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new Innovation Center model intended to improve rural health by leveraging innovative financial arrangements, and providing operational and regulatory flexibilities.