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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has assessed a new round of administrative penalties on eight California hospitals, totaling $437,425, for immediate jeopardy incidents.
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An overview of the most recent immediate jeopardy administrative penalties, announced June 18, 2019, by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), is provided below. To view information about each incident — including the CDPH district office that investigated the event, the penalty amount, a description of the event and a link to the CDPH 2567 form — click the hospital name for a full display below the tabs.
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As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of senior citizens in the state is about to explode. The 65-and-over population will nearly double within a decade, which means a larger percentage of seniors here in California than in Florida. And it’s not clear if we’re ready for the societal, economic and health care demands this shift represents.
“California has a relatively young population that’s about to gray rapidly, and we are woefully unprepared,” said Bruce Chernof, president of The SCAN Foundation. “The state’s approach to aging services is a six-decade collection of well-meaning but one-off programs that are siloed from one another.”
Chernof was one of several of The Bee’s California Influencers who lauded Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “Master Plan on Aging,” which Newsom recently announced to address the needs of the state’s growing senior population.
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If you’re ever in need of quality data on hospitals in California, Scott Masten is a great person to start with.
As VP of Measurement Science and Data Analytics at HQI, he provides statistical consulting, program evaluation, and education for member hospitals.
Scott joined HQI in 2016 to help develop the Hospital Quality Intelligence Initiative (HQI2) data warehouse and advance our data processing, analysis, and reporting capabilities.
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No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. – H.E. Luccock, professor, Yale Divinity School
A typical full-size orchestra has as many as 100 members, and here among our four associations and affiliated organizations, we have nearly twice that number of employees.
A modern orchestra has about 20 different instruments, and it’s truly awe-inspiring that such a variety of sounds can come together to produce melodies that ring across generations.
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It’s good to occasionally reference Crucial Conversations to reinforce some the wisdom shared with us during our training this year. Among the top takeaways is this nugget, entitled Safety First:
“When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, it’s important that everyone involved in the conversation feels safe. Look for signs of fear and bring the conversation back to safety.”
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Leading lights of the health insurance industry are crying that Medicare For All or any kind of universal health reform would “crash the system” and “destroy healthcare as we know it.”
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
They say we should trust them and their cost-cutting efforts to bring all Americans more affordable health care.
We should not trust them, because the system as it is currently structured economically is incapable of reducing costs.
Why? Let’s do a quick structural analysis. This is how health care actually works.
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In All Facilities Letter 19-23, issued last week, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) outlines an alternative pathway to hospice licensing recently made available through the enactment of Senate Bill 1495 (Chapter 424, Statutes of 2018). Under the bill, CDPH must issue a hospice license to any applicant that meets certain standards, including approval by a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-certified national accreditation organization.
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CHA has submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule on accrediting organization (AO) changes of ownership. The proposed rule outlines a process by which AOs need to obtain CMS approval for a change in ownership and the tight time frames that providers with deemed status must subsequently follow.
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CHA has submitted comments on the draft guidance on co-location policies for hospitals that share space, staff, or services with another hospital or health care entity, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).