The newsroom includes access to Council Connect, our twice-monthly newsletter on Hospital Council’s work. Key articles and issues of interest, along with the President’s Message, are included below.
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Rural Health Care Symposium Highlights Hospital Financial Instability
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Millions of Californians are at risk of losing access to critical health care services as rural hospitals struggle financially. When a rural hospital closes, it is often the sole source of care for miles and miles so Californians living in these communities must travel farther for care. Those in poor health, seniors, and people experiencing poverty suffer the most.
Coalition Forms to Address Rural Ambulance Services
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Who Elected officials from northern California Emergency medical professionals County government representatives What A new coalition of legislators, emergency medical professionals, county representatives, and Hospital Council staff met to discuss the prevention of more closures and reduction of rural ambulance services […]
San Francisco Health Commission Hearing Discusses Dignity Health Hospital Acquisitions
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Who University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health Dignity Health (Saint Mary’s Medical Center & Saint Francis Memorial Hospital) San Francisco Health Commission San Francisco Department of Health What Recently, the San Francisco Health Commission concluded the second of two Proposition […]
New Resources Available to Engage Office of Health Care Affordability
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. CHA released an alert earlier this month on the Office of Health Care Affordability’s staff-proposed 3% spending growth target and is sharing additional resources: An alternative framework developed by CHA that outlines factors that must be considered for an achievable, sustainable […]
PHC Holds Symposium on Rural Maternity Care
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Who Partnership HealthPlan of California Representatives from hospitals and health care partners in partnership counties California Health Care Foundation CHA and Hospital Council staff What Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) held a one-day symposium on Feb. 12 about the lack […]
Workforce Efforts Expanded in Monterey Bay
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Who Santa Cruz Health Improvement Partnership California State University (CSU), Monterey Bay Community groups and stakeholders in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties What Several efforts are underway in Monterey Bay to help build the health care workforce pipeline. In […]
Medical Service Line Changes in Santa Clara
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Who Regional Medical Center of San Jose Santa Clara County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMSA) What The Regional Medical Center of San Jose has notified the Santa Clara County EMSA it plans to close and modify certain service lines: Trauma and […]
Sonoma County Focuses on Behavioral Health Needs
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Who Be Well Orange County Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Partnership HealthPlan of California Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital Members of Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Sonoma County leaders What Sonoma County […]
National Conference Shines Light on Financial Struggle of Rural Hospitals
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California’s nearly five dozen rural hospitals provide care to more than 2 million people and are both lifelines and economic pillars for the communities they serve. However, many of these hospitals are on the financial brink, reducing services just to stay open or facing the possibility of closure.
Vitality Payer Scorecard: Holding Insurers Accountable
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CHA is hosting a complimentary, members-only webinar on Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. (PT) to highlight the American Hospital Association Vitality Payer Scorecard, which was recently endorsed by the CHA board. It captures necessary and normalized data points without sharing protected health information. The automated process is based on de-identified claims and remittance files and eliminates the need for CHA surveys on this issue.
