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HASC’s workforce initiative partner, Azusa Pacific University (APU), is offering a perioperative RN specialty course this summer. New this semester, the course prepares labor and delivery nurses who need training to circulate for Cesarean deliveries. The APU RN Specialty course is available for any hospital in the region.
HASC is hosting an exclusive executive roundtable webcast on
optimizing your organization’s benefits purchasing power.
Saul Locker, Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Benefits
Alliance (HBA) Trust, will share their unique health care
benefit solutions with HASC members. The HBA
Trust offers hospitals and health systems access to certain
group insurance coverages designed exclusively for the health
care industry. Instead of competing with existing brokers,
the HBA Trust welcomes existing brokers to the program.
GreenRock Healthcare Capital is partnering with HASC to provide
membership access to a valuable workshop event on how your
organization can better position itself with H-PACE to generate
additional capital for capital strategy.
HASC recognizes that, after a particularly challenging year for
our hospitals, finding enough cash and debt resources can be one
of the biggest challenges institutions face. And for most
hospitals, the second largest cash outflow item, after payroll,
is capital spending.
Few leaders have time to assess the trends and efficiency of organized labor from year to year. Meanwhile, state and national labor relations law are continuously passed and/or updated. Consequently, opportunities to understand and act on current labor facts and trends can be missed.
Adena Tessler joined HASC’s advocacy team in February as regional
vice president, Los Angeles County.
Adena spent the past 16 years working in advocacy, public
relations and crisis management for many private and public
entities. Prior to her consulting work, she was chief legislative
deputy to Los Angeles City Councilmember Cindy Miscikowski.
Please join us at the 2022 HASC Annual Meeting, May 16-18 at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort. Register before Feb. 25 and take advantage of the $100 early bird discount for hospital members.
A new breakout has been added to the agenda: Creating a Culture of Clinician and Employee Well-Being.
LEAD Academy is an intensive, 12-module live e-learning experience using tools and experiential learning to empower recently hired, newly appointed or previously untrained health care leaders to better understand and use their strengths. Designed for health care supervisors and managers, LEAD is built on the underlying principle that effective leadership requires productive relationships that support excellence in patient care, sustainable business objectives and a safe patient environment.
HASC Endorsed Business Partner GreenRock Capital LLC successfully led $103 million in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) funding for Chinese Hospital in San Francisco. This is the largest single commercial PACE transaction in the PACE industry history and is the first to combine both taxable and tax-exempt financing in the same transaction. By doing so, Chinese Hospital will realize respective cashflow savings of over $40 million during the next 10 years.
Unfortunately, the New Year feels a little like Groundhog Day as find ourselves in a very familiar place – in the middle of a precipitously increasing COVID-19 surge. While the variant may have a different name, we’re dealing with many of the same challenges – in some cases, worse than last winter’s deadly Delta surge.
Please join us at the HASC Annual Meeting, May 16-18 at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort. We’re excited to host an in-person event. Registrations received before February 25 will receive a $100 early bird discount.
Workforce challenges have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact has prompted HASC to re-examine its workforce data collecting and reporting efforts. The availability of accurate workforce data is critical because it quantifies issues and allows for better decision making based on facts rather than anecdotes. Furthermore, this data is useful in identifying shortages and assists with analyzing workforce trends and anticipating changes.
Members are invited to attend a virtual information session to learn more about the Ambulatory Care RN Specialty Apprenticeship, a new California Registered Nurse Specialty Apprenticeship Program, set to launch in the first quarter of 2022. The session will be held from 10-11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
The following is a HASC Briefs Focus, a feature illuminating hospital operations and offering solutions to challenges facing hospital mangers. This week’s feature profiles workforce development boards and what they can do to alleviate the ongoing shortage of nurses and other trained health care professionals.
With questions or comments, contact HASC HR & Education Services Vice President Teri Hollingsworth (below).
HASC’s workforce initiative partner, Azusa Pacific University, or APU, is offering a perioperative RN specialty course this spring. The APU RN specialty course is available for any hospital in the region to prepare RNs transferring to a new position in perioperative nursing at their facility.
HASC Endorsed Business Partner GreenRock Capital LLC successfully led $103 million in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) funding for Chinese Hospital in San Francisco. This is the largest single commercial PACE transaction in the PACE industry history and is the first to combine both taxable and tax-exempt financing in the same transaction. By doing so, Chinese Hospital will realize respective cashflow savings of over $40 million during the next 10 years.
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