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CMS Requires Patient Reclassification Notices in February 2025

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What’s happening: Beginning Feb. 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will require giving “Observation Change of Status Notices” to patients who are reclassified from inpatient to observation (outpatient) status.   What else to know: CMS has issued updated information on these new requirements for communication to affected patients. Hospitals will be required to...

HQI to Host Patient Safety Evaluation System 2025 Virtual Summit

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What’s happening: The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) is hosting the Patient Safety Evaluation System 2025 Virtual Summit on May 28-29 from 8 a.m. to noon (PT). Registration is open.    What else to know: The summit will provide information to help health care professionals communicate better (internally and with patients) and improve patient care delivery. Presenters...

Registration Open for Chief of Staff Boot Camp 2025

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What’s happening: The Institute for Medical Leadership is hosting its Chief of Staff Boot Camp 2025 — geared toward medical staff leaders, chief medical offers, hospital executives, and medical staff managers — Feb. 28 to March 2 in Los Angeles. Tuition begins at $2,195, and registration is open.  What else to know: The Chief of...

Kaiser Permanente Shares Tips for Standardizing Incident Response and Maintaining System-Wide Situational Awareness

2022 Disaster Conference

Kaiser Permanente presents on its journey to standardize emergency response across eight regions, 42 hospitals, and a national command center. Learn about the research, development, and implementation of an incident response tool that fosters effective, accurate, and timely communication. Learnings from Kaiser Permanente can help other hospitals identify technology needs, potential questions, issues and strategies as they work to improve incident response.

Discount Deadline Extended for Post-Acute Care Conference

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The discount deadline for this year’s annual Post-Acute Care Conference, to be held Feb. 15-16 in Redondo Beach, has been extended to Jan. 26. The program, which explores the theme The Power of Our Story — Communicating the Value of Post-Acute Care, will help post-acute care providers identify and express the value of services in medical rehabilitation, long-term acute care, distinct-part skilled-nursing and home health arenas. This year’s event will open with keynote speaker Shalyn Eyer, who will describe how storytelling can be used as a leadership tool to strengthen relationships, reshape culture and spark action for change. To hear more, watch the video below. 

Other sessions will address developing high-performing networks; a patient-centered and value-based approach to discharge planning; and the latest updates on post-acute policy. Anyone interested in the continuum of care and committed to helping patients achieve maximum health and independence should attend. For more information or to register, visit www.calhospital.org/post-acute-care-conference.

HQI to Host Five-Part Webinar Series on Building a Hospital Safety Culture 

What’s happening: The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) is offering a five-part webinar series to address strategies for increasing patient safety and improving response to patient harm.  What else to know: The series will provide a deep dive into the five domains of HQI’s flagship program, HQI Cares: BETA HEART®, and explore their alignment with the...

CDPH Health Advisory Urges Summertime Testing for Influenza A

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What’s happening: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released a Health Advisory on June 11 recommending that, as the 2024-25 flu season ends, health care providers continue testing for influenza throughout the summer — particularly in patients with respiratory illness, conjunctivitis, or avian influenza A (H5N1) exposure risk factors.  

Patient Movement Surge Playbook

2023 Disaster Conference – Best Practice Showcase

Shared by the Alameda County Emergency Services Agency, the California Patient Movement Surge Playbook Poster outlines a framework for managing complex patient transfers and hospital capacity challenges during catastrophic events. It identifies gaps in patient movement, coordination priorities, and best practices.