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CHA Disaster Planning Conference Focuses on Lessons Learned

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What’s happening: CHA held its annual Disaster Planning Conference in Pasadena on Sept. 10 and 11. Topics included best practices for communication and collaboration in an emergency, treatment of special pathogens, enhancing health care cybersecurity, and fundamentals of radiation protection.    

What else to know: More than 500 people attended the conference, including emergency preparedness directors and coordinators; members of hospital disaster planning teams; compliance, nurse, and case managers; and quality and safety executives.  

Fairchild Medical Center

Fairchild Medical Center (FMC) offers primary and specialty services including medical, surgical, orthopedic, emergency, obstetrical, pediatric care, and other specialties available through telemedicine. Its focus providing comprehensive, high-quality health care services to those in need. Located in Yreka, California at the base of the breathtaking, beautiful Mount Shasta, Fairchild is accredited by The Joint Commission. […]

CMS Revises Guidance on COVID-19 Survey Tool, Visitation Restrictions

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued revised guidance on the COVID-19 focused infection control (FIC) survey tool. The guidance now states that there is no longer a need to continue the required use of the special FIC survey […]

2024 CDPH Leadership Updates and District Sessions

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CDPH and CHA will once again gather virtually to discuss all things licensing – including program flexes due to potential surges, the status of re-licensing and recertification surveys, and CDPH’s plans to modify Title 22.

Participants can speak with their district office representatives in separate breakout sessions. Now is the time to gain licensing clarification and a better understanding of CDPH policies and protocols.

Go ahead and register! It’s that easy.

CMS Guidance Clarifies Hospital Respiratory Illness Data Reporting Requirements Effective Nov. 1

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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to hospitals and state surveyors that underscores the importance of following reporting requirements for new hospital respiratory illness data reporting conditions of participation (CoP). 

What else to know: CMS also clarifies in the guidance that psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals will report their daily COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus data annually rather than weekly. 

CHA Releases Updated Model Medical Staff Bylaws and Rules

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CHA is pleased to announce its 2019 Model Medical Staff Bylaws and Rules are now available. The manual sets a framework for the working relationship of hospital medical staff, hospital administration and governing body, and assures legal protections are in place.

Adventist Health Mendocino Coast

Serving rural communities stretched along 70 miles of coastline from Gualala to Westport, Adventist Health Mendocino Coast Hospital in 2009 was designed as the nation’s first healing hospital. Its goal is to not only treat patients for disease, but to apply advanced techniques for maintaining wellness and enhancing patients’ quality of life. Accredited by The […]