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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Addressing Emergency Department Challenges in Northern Sierra
Who Coalition of state associations, local emergency medical services authorities (LEMSAs), ambulance providers, and county supervisors What Hospital Council efforts to sustain rural ambulance services continue. The newly formed coalition of state associations, LEMSAs, ambulance providers, county supervisors, and other entities will move next to do an analysis. While all members of the coalition are...
Addressing Inmate Emergency Department Transport Protocols
Who Sacramento Fire Department (SFD) Sacramento County Jail Health Sacramento County Emergency Medical Services Agency (SCEMSA) What At a meeting convened by Hospital Council on March 20, SFD shared concerns about communication and protocols on when the county jail uses emergency medical services (EMS) providers to transport inmates to community hospitals. In 2023, SFD transported...
HCAI Reminds Hospitals to Register with New Online Portal
Last week, the California Hospital Association (CHA) shared that a significant number of hospitals missed a Jan. 1 registration deadline for the Department of Health Care Access and Information’s new online charity care portal. Hospitals that have not registered may be subject to penalties of up to $500 per day. Hospitals should confirm that they...
Hospital Association of Southern California to Host Central Coast 2024 Essential Human Trafficking Training
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
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
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 […]
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
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
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...
