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What’s happening: During a panel discussion last week, CHA shared hospital perspectives on how the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) can make care more affordable while protecting access to high-quality, equitable care.
What else to know: CHA participated in a four-person panel on OHCA hosted by Capitol Weekly during the publication’s annual conference focused on health care.
What’s new in CHA Education? On-demand learning!
CHA is now offering members-only on-demand programs that provide the knowledge you need, on your time schedule. How much time can you spare for learning in a day — 15 minutes? Three hours? The choice is yours.
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CHA has submitted comments to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) on Cal/OSHA’s June 8 emergency regulations pertaining to the stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE), which define “normal consumption” as the average consumption of specified PPE type and size over a two-year period, with a 200% cap.
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CHA is pleased to release the 2021 Consent Manual, the authoritative one-stop resource on how to comply with legal requirements related to patient consent for medical treatment, release of medical information, reporting requirements, and more.
Approximately 3 million Californians live in areas with either no labor and delivery (L&D) hospital units or units vulnerable to closing. When an L&D hospital unit closes, moms and babies experience worse health outcomes.
What’s happening: CHA and the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP) are calling on pharmacy professionals to join the movement for substantive change in pharmacy practice through their partnership with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) Practice Advancement Initiative (PAI) — and joining the movement begins with taking the California Hospital Survey.
What else to know: Originally launched in 2010, PAI has helped pharmacists across diverse practice settings implement local changes to improve patient care — and ASHP is bolstering these efforts by launching PAI 2030. In PAI 2030, ASHP has introduced 59 updated recommendations aimed at enhancing medication use, expanding the roles of pharmacists and technicians, and embracing emerging technologies.
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What’s happening: At its most recent meeting, the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) board elected Kim Johnson, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, as its new chair — and considered potential adoption of hospital sector targets, a provisional approach to measuring hospital spending, and a proposal for tracking quality and equity.
What else to know: Ahead of the meeting, CHA wrote to the board on these topics, urging further learning and progress toward implementation before adopting sector targets; supporting a comprehensive yet streamlined approach to measuring quality, equity, and access; and asking that the behavioral health investment goal consider the full continuum of behavioral health services.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed rule on payments to skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2023. Comments on the proposed rule are due by 2 p.m. (PT) on June 10.
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CIf your family is anything like mine, every Thanksgiving we take turns around the table, and everyone shares something they’re particularly thankful for this year.
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Last year’s stay-at-home mandates, plus a need to limit the spread of COVID-19, caused many health care facilities to cancel in-person visits and procedures. The result? Telehealth visits — seeing a health care professional by phone or video conference rather than going into their office — increased by leaps and bounds.
