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This week — May 6-12 — marks National Nurses Week, a time to honor, celebrate, and elevate nurses. Throughout the week, hospitals across the state will be honoring and thanking the nurses who help us provide care to Californians who need it.
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How can I find out what sources of federal funding are available to my hospital during this time?
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In just a few hours, the state Legislature will officially wrap up its 2019 session. This was a particularly challenging year for our work to protect your ability to care for patients, as a new Democratic supermajority opened the door for several brazen policy proposals detrimental to hospitals. And the session saw a record number of bills (more than 3,000) introduced, so the pace was fast and furious. Factor in the uncertainty about how a new governor would respond to this environment, and you’ve got a volatile legislative mix for the past nine months.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly provides important updates about post-acute care quality reporting programs (QRPs), including training opportunities, public reporting, and reminders of data submission and review deadlines.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities QRP training CMS will host two webinars for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) on proper coding of Section M Skin Conditions (Pressure Ulcer/Injury) and Section N of the IRF Patient Assessment Instrument Version 2.00. Updated reporting requirements for Sections M and N became effective on Oct. 1 for IRF providers. See the IRF Quality Reporting Training web page for details.
Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Provider preview reports CMS has informed long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs) that previous provider preview reports for the Discharge to Community – PAC measure contained an error. Preview data released in June 2018 incorporated only seven of eight required quarters of data. Data from October through December 2016 were inadvertently omitted.
CMS has reissued the LTCH provider preview reports, and corrected reports are now available via CASPER system folders. LTCH providers have until Aug. 31 to preview the corrected data in advance of public reporting for the September 2018 LTCH Compare Refresh.
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New guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revises the guidelines to determine immediate jeopardy. The changes to Appendix Q of the State Operations Manual — referred to as Core Appendix Q — apply to all providers and suppliers, and include subparts that focus on concerns in nursing homes and clinical laboratories.
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California’s nine-month legislative session will take its summer recess in mid-July and rev back up in mid-August for what will be a frenetic final four weeks to send bills to the Governor’s desk. CHA has been tracking hundreds of health care-related bills, and actively working on dozens on behalf of hospitals and health systems.
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Earlier this week, Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH — CEO of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles and a member of the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems Board of Trustees — was named as a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award. The award recognizes her commitment to serving the South Los Angeles area, a long-underserved community with a severe shortage of health care providers.
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Daniel Kraft, MD — a physician-scientist trained at Stanford and Harvard — will lead a general session at the 2019 California Hospital Volunteer Leadership Conference on game-changing technology trends poised to revolutionize medicine in the next decade.
During the session, Dr. Kraft will provide a snapshot of upcoming medical innovations — powered by new tools, tests and mobile apps — that will bring diagnostic information directly to patients. He’ll also cover emerging fields that promise to empower patients and help clinicians deliver better care at lower cost. These include low-cost personal genomics, digitized health records, crowd-sourced data, molecular imaging, wearable devices and mobile health.
Why attend?
Listen to a world-renowned physician, scientist, inventor and innovator Learn how health care is rapidly evolving Understand how volunteers fit into this changing landscape and can best serve their hospital and community
The conference will be held Feb. 11-13 in at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento. To register, visit the conference website.
Dr. Kraft serves as faculty chair for medicine at Singularity University and is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores the convergence of accelerating technologies and their implications for the future of health care. For more information, click here.
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Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2019-2020 budget, which calls for critical and timely investments to address many of California’s long-standing health issues, is one that should be supported by all who care about the health of Californians.
Among the key proposals:
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On Aug. 12, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finalized a rule to change the policy under which the federal government can deny immigrants U.S. entry or adjustment to their legal permanent resident status (e.g., green card) if they are determined likely to become public charges (see CHA’s response). The final rule expands the list of programs that may be considered for determining public charge status, to include not only cash assistance and long-term care but also certain health care, nutrition, and housing programs.