What’s happening: Following the governor’s signing of Assembly Bill 108 (Gabriel, D-Encino) last week, the Department of Health Care Access and Information has established the Distressed Hospital Small Grant Program, which will provide $25 million to assist hospitals in immediate and severe financial distress. HCAI has released the grant application, which is due May 18 by 5 p.m. (PT).
(more…)Applications for Distressed Hospital Small Grant Program Due May 18
Signatures Verified for SEIU-UHW’s Compensation Cap Measure; CHA Board Backs Measure to Streamline Building Project Approvals
What’s happening: On Wednesday, Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West announced that the signatures they submitted in support of the measure to cap compensation for health care leaders have been verified by county election officials. This moves the campaign closer to qualifying the measure for the November 2026 ballot.
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Executive Briefing: Statewide Ballot Initiative Campaigns
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
7:30 – 8:30 a.m., PT
Join us to gain a better understanding of two critically important ballot initiative campaigns—and the role your organizations can play to defeat and pass these consequential measures.
- First, CHA opposes an initiative that would arbitrarily cap the total compensation for health care professionals—driving doctors, nurses, and health care leaders out of California and jeopardizing care.
- Second, CHA is driving our own initiative to empower health care workers with the right to vote on how their hard-earned dues money is spent on political campaigns.
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National Hospital Week Reminds Us How Hospitals Support Patients, Health Care Workers, and Communities
SACRAMENTO (May 11, 2026) — In honor of National Hospital Week and the hospitals and health care workers who make healing possible, the California Hospital Association (CHA) is pleased to share the Senate’s adoption of Senate Resolution (SR) 110 (Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield), which recognizes May 10-16, 2026, as a time to appreciate and celebrate hospitals and the communities they serve.
(more…)CHA Presses Newsom on Fee Program 9
What’s happening: In a letter sent Tuesday to Gov. Newsom, CHA pressed for expedited submission of the final payment policies for the next iteration of the Hospital Fee Program. As a reminder, the revised tax model was submitted in mid-March.
(more…)Battling Back Against Anthem’s Unlawful Hospital Penalties
CHA is taking the fight against Anthem’s new and harmful reimbursement penalty policy to the courts.
(more…)EMSA Re-Releases AB 40 Regulations; Comments Due May 18
What’s happening: The Emergency Medical Services Authority has opened a new comment period for additional modifications to the Chapter 1.2 Ambulance Patient Offload Time regulations, which implement provisions of Assembly Bill 40 (2023).
(more…)Recording of OHCA ‘High-Cost’ Hospital List Reassessment Now Available
What’s happening: A recording of CHA’s April 23 webinar on the Office of Health Care Affordability’s (OHCA) planned reassessment of the “high-cost” hospital list is now available for members who many have missed it.
(more…)CHA Briefing Highlights Financial Strain Facing Rural Hospitals
What’s happening: On Tuesday, CHA held a briefing for legislative staff on the financial realities of rural health care survival.
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