As a federal debate heats up over legislation that could bring historic cuts to Medicare and Medicaid (Medi-Cal), it’s essential that California’s federal representatives hear from hospital leaders about how these cuts would devastate both access to health care and hospitals struggling to deliver vital health services.
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What’s happening: At the Office of Health Care Affordability’s (OHCA) Oct. 14 board meeting in Sacramento, board members expressed interest in moving swiftly on adopting a regional hospital sector spending target, at least in Monterey County, which OHCA announced will also be the subject of an investigative hospital market competition study.
What else to know: The board welcomed its newest member and approved the state’s first primary care investment benchmark.
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In a recent conversation with a California hospital CEO that touched on any number of the headwinds facing hospitals in the years to come, he offered this assessment of the current state of affairs: “The world just isn’t working the way it’s supposed to.”
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Next week, as the state Legislature begins the home stretch of its current session, our major focus on behalf of your hospitals will continue to be relief from the 2030 seismic mandate.
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The often-shared parable of the frog that is boiled over time because it fails to recognize that the temperature of the water it is in is slowly rising could well be an appropriate metaphor for COVID-19’s arc in California.
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There is no way to sugarcoat this, nor should we: California’s hospitals are in the middle of a full-blown crisis.
COVID-19 cases are hitting new heights every day (more than 50,000 on Wednesday), hospitalizations for COVID-19 this week topped 16,000, and ICU capacity is rapidly dwindling (it was less than 2% in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley this week) due to shortfalls of critical care nurses.
The state projects the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals will double in a month’s time.
Overview
The CHA case manager committee identified a need — case managers needed additional training opportunities as well as ongoing support. And case management leaders needed training tools that were accessible, cost-effective, and which could be customized to meet the unique needs of each individual and hospital.
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CHA DataSuite has released two hospital-specific analyses of the calendar year (CY) 2022 Medicare home health prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule and value-based purchasing (VBP) program.
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This space — the weekly message from CHA’s President & CEO — is typically reserved to share the most up-to-date information about critical state and federal policy and advocacy developments. It’s an opportunity that I deeply value, to communicate directly with you, the members of the California Hospital Association who rely on the work this team does on your behalf.