Council Connect Articles

Wipfli Offers a Price Transparency Solution for Hospitals

In late 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the hospital price transparency rule, which requires hospitals — beginning on Jan. 1, 2021 — to provide publicly accessible standard charge information about the items and services they render.

What the Military Can Teach Us About Resiliency

The pandemic that has consumed the country — the world — for more than a year has come with a hefty psychological toll for many, especially hospital staff and front-line health care workers. They’ve been working non-stop to care for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. Staff burnout is real, and it’s been the topic of many recent discussions with hospital leaders. As we inch toward the finish line and start to contemplate a post-pandemic landscape, we need to keep our health care workers top of mind.

New Workplace Safety Tool for Mental Health Services Providers

Since early 2020, the Hospital Council has convened a Sacramento Region Behavioral Health Task Force, which consists of leaders of general acute care hospitals, stand-alone psychiatric hospitals, county behavioral health departments, and non-hospital outpatient behavioral health programs.

Walmart Honors Health Care Heroes with Free Meals

Hospital Council and its foundation were honored to support a One Team opportunity for health care workers. Walmart, through CHA and Hospital Council, provided $200,000 toward appreciation meals for hospitals with ICUs in the Central Valley, one of the state’s most impacted areas.

CHA Launches Redesigned Website

For those who haven’t seen it yet, CHA has modernized and redesigned its website for desktop and mobile. Designed to help members find the information they need quicker and easier, the new site reorganizes the materials CHA provides, sorting them by the topics that matter most to members. Content can be filtered not just by […]