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HHS Announces $25.5 Billion in COVID-19 Relief Funding for Providers

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will make available $25.5 billion in additional COVID-19 relief funding. The application portal for the additional funding will open on Sept. 29. Additionally, the agency also announced a 60-day grace […]

Discharge Transitions for Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Webinar

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Originally recorded November 13, 2020

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What are your next steps when an individual with intellectual or development disabilities can’t be discharged to their original location? Who are you partnering with to gain information?

The Department of Developmental Services (DDS) has regional centers throughout the state that provide assistance and resources when help is needed with discharge issues — not just for hospitals but for individuals and their families.

CEO Message: The Long and Winding Road

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Earlier this week, Governor Newsom shared some encouraging news about California’s COVID-19 positivity rate, which dropped by 2 percentage points, to 4%, over the past 14 days compared to the two weeks prior. 

We’re moving in the right direction, but we would be remiss to think we’ve truly turned the corner on this pandemic. Rather, this progress means we must be even more vigilant, to guard against a premature resumption of activities that could set us back months. 

The Values of Hospitals

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Over the Labor Day weekend, The New York Times published a column critical of hospital spending. It called, ahead of the Democratic Primary debates, for elected officials and candidates to “address the elephant in the room and tell us how they plan to rein in hospital excesses.”

The data the author uses to form her call to action were carefully selected to support her position, and as is too often the case, fail to account for the myriad cost drivers beyond the control of hospital leaders, such as the high price of labor.

The American Hospital Association has already submitted a response to The New York Times, and has debunked some of the incorrect points in its blog.

We can argue data validity all day, and that work has its place. What’s more important, however, than simply correcting the record for this column – and hundreds of others like it in the past year – is that we take heed of a growing shift in how real people experience their hospital. Despite its many problems, the NYT column sadly does capture the sentiment of millions of Americans.

In June, NPR published “When Hospitals Sue for Unpaid Bills, It Can Be ‘Ruinous’ for Patients.” The piece offered multiple tales of the impact on patients and their families of garnished wages resulting from medical debt lawsuits.

Their stories are heartbreaking.

In the NPR story, the reporter interviewed Martin Makary, a surgeon and researcher at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

“Hospitals were built — mostly by churches — to be a safe haven for people regardless of one’s race, creed or ability to pay,” Markey said. “…They’re supposed to be community institutions.”

Markey is partially right when he says hospitals are supposed to be community institutions. There’s nothing “supposed” about it. You are community institutions.

You are there, 24/7, through all manner of emergencies, disasters, and more. You are economic pillars in your cities and counties. You wake up each day thinking about how to serve people better.

Even the NYT piece concedes: “…when their operations generate huge surpluses…they plow the money back into the system…build another cancer clinic…buy the newest scanner (whether it’s needed or not).”

It’s that last sentence that is troubling. Are we really at the point where we should think that building a cancer clinic or buying a scanner is a bad thing? These are investments that save and change lives. They are made solely with that purpose in mind.

It’s saddening that for some, the impact of not doing these things isn’t considered.

Which brings us back to the experience people have with their hospital and how they feel about that experience. There’s a joke about the airline industry here that is relevant. It goes something like this:

“There you are, 30,000 feet in the air, flying in an aluminum cylinder across the country to see your loved ones in just a few short hours, and all you do is complain that the movie selection is weak and the peanut bag is small. Where’s the appreciation for the miracle of flight itself?”

In 2019, this is our call to action as hospital leaders: to not only perform the daily medical miracles, but also to meet people where they are – so their hospital experience is one that matches your values of service, healing, and hope.

— Carmela

TJC Surveys Resume — Know What to Expect Webinar

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Originally recorded June 30, 2020

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In March, The Joint Commission (TJC) suspended all surveys due to COVID-19. That has changed as the COVID-19 curve flattens and state and counties begin to reopen. As of June 1, TJC has resumed reaccreditation surveys nationally, including hospitals in some California counties.

COVID-19 Data Reporting to Become a Medicare Condition of Participation

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an interim final rule revising regulatory requirements related to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Among the provisions finalized, CMS establishes new requirements in the hospital and critical access hospital Conditions of Participation that require hospitals to report certain COVID-19-related data elements to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on a daily basis.

COVID-19: Hospital Visitor and Support Person Laws and Guidelines Webinar

Originally recorded October 30, 2020

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Visitation challenges have become increasingly complex as hospitals address access issues and must comply with changing COVID 19-related requirements and guidance. Establishing guidelines to determine who can visit which patients while keeping patients and staff safe can prove challenging. This webinar can help.

Committee Members

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Chair

Pamela Allen, RN, MSN, CEN
Director, Emergency Department/Critical Care/Emergency Services
Redlands Community Hospital, Redlands

Chair

Rose Colangelo, RN, MSN, CEN
Patient Care Manager, Emergency Department
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla

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