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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Hospital Association of Southern California to Host Central Coast 2024 Essential Human Trafficking Training
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HASC will host the Essential Human Trafficking Training in Health Care on May 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard.
North Bay Leaders Discuss Workforce and Access
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Who Hospital leaders from Hospital Council North Bay Section (Adventist, Kaiser, Providence, Santa Rosa Behavioral Health, Sonoma Valley, and Sutter) Partnership HealthPlan (PHP) representatives Cal Poly Humboldt representatives What The North Bay Section gathered in person on March 13 to hear an overview of Hospital Council and CHA’s 2024 priorities and discuss health care workforce...
Central Valley CEOs Meet with Sen. Anna Caballero
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Who Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Merced) and staff Hospital CEOs within and near Sen. Caballero’s district in the Central Valley What On March 18, Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Merced) met with hospital CEOs in the Central Valley portions of her district. The CEOs thanked the senator for her authorship of the California Hospital Association’s (CHA) current seismic...
Honoring Women’s History Month by Advancing Maternity Care
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Throughout California, hospital labor and delivery units are closing, casualties of a perfect storm of record-low birth rates, health care workforce shortages, and low Medi-Cal reimbursement. Closing maternity services is never an easy decision, and yet it’s one more and more hospital […]
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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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 in California. Ambulance providers closing or reducing services has become commonplace in rural areas,...
San Francisco Health Commission Hearing Discusses Dignity Health Hospital Acquisitions
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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 Q (Community Health Care Planning Ordinance) hearings related to UCSF Health’s acquisition of Dignity...
New Resources Available to Engage Office of Health Care Affordability
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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 spending target CHA’s comment letter, which incorporates the framework and requests a one-year target...
PHC Holds Symposium on Rural Maternity Care
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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 of maternity services in rural areas and the threat of additional closures. Hospitals face...
Workforce Efforts Expanded in Monterey Bay
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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 Santa Cruz County, the Health Improvement Partnership is developing listening tours — also called...
