To maintain daily operations and patient care services, health care facilities need to develop an Emergency Water Supply Plan (EWSP) to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a total or partial interruption of the facilities’ normal water supply.
Violence against hospital employees is a significant issue with the potential for devastating consequences. Active shooter situations can be premeditated or spontaneous, and hospital employees should always maintain situational awareness and vigilance.
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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
Members
COVID-19 brought about unforeseen challenges and solutions, forever changing the face of emergency readiness. With gritty determination and endless perseverance, you demonstrated day in and day out how valuable you are to keeping our communities safe and healthy.
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Start thinking about the 2023 Disaster Planning Conference. Save this date. Or if you already know you are going to attend – Excellent! Register now to attend in person or virtual. We are happy to have you.
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The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced this week that, due to a system process error, it will be forced to recalculate the entire state fiscal year (FY) 2017-18 Private Hospital Directed Payment Program (PHDP) program payments.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its third-party administrators, Optum and TriWest, will reconsider payments to providers whose claims were denied because of simple routing errors, including claims that were submitted to the wrong VA payer (VA or a TPA).
With each Hospital Fee Program renewal, DHCS retrieves the requisite hospital data and updates the fee and payment model as directed under the authorizing legislation found under state law (specifically, the Medi-Cal Hospital Reimbursement Improvement Act of 2013 codified at Welfare and Institutions Code sections 14169.50 through 14169.76).
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Under Senate Bill 1254 (Chapter 697, Statutes of 2018), hospitals must establish criteria for high-risk patients and complete a medication profile for those patients. To better understand how this new requirement will impact patient safety, CHA and California Health System Pharmacists members will undertake a six-week, multi-center quality improvement project.
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.In a year like no other, it’s safe to say the victories have been few and far between. But today, California’s hospitals got two big wins in Congress. First, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 1868 as amended, which will continue to delay […]