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Enrollment is now open for HASC’s 2020 Spring LEAD Academy program scheduled for six sessions January through June at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale.
LEAD Academy is the association’s most in-demand education offering. Hundreds of graduates attest to its effectiveness in the health care workplace.
Course topics include workload management, collaboration, understanding personality types, motivating employees — and more.
Scheduled dates include Jan. 24, Feb. 21, March 20, April 17, May 22 and June 19.
Susan Harrington is executive director of Communities Lifting Communities — the HASC initiative aimed at health disparities and upstream factors affecting diabetes, preterm births and other public health challenges.
She recently sat down with the HASC Strategic Communications team to discuss the initiative’s goals and work.
The following HASC Education Programs are now open for enrollment. Reserve seats for your team today! With any questions, please contact Jamila Mayers, HASC Education Program Director (below).
2020 Spring LEAD Academy. Sessions offered Jan. 24, Feb. 21, March 20, April 17, May 22 and June 19. HASC’s LEAD Academy is the association’s most in-demand education offering. Learn more at: www.hasc.org/2020-lead-academy.
HASC continues its work with Managed Care Advisory Group, or MCAG, the HASC Endorsed Business Partner that makes class-action settlement recoveries a no-hassle revenue source for members.
Are stipends a new tool to recruit residents to your organization?
According to a 2019 survey of final year residents by physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins, 42 percent of final year residents have over $201,000 in student loan debt. Today, 58 percent of U.S.-trained physicians have at least $158,000 in student loan debt compared to just 38 percent of international medical school graduates.
CDIP program graduates Maria Muniz (left) and Safia Hassan (right) pose with preceptor Carmen Perez at Adventist Health White Memorial hospital in Los Angeles.
A limited number of opportunities exist to sponsor a unique certificate program for women in health care — co-produced by the Hospital Association of Southern California and UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.
The program takes place this March 12-13 in Irvine. Please contact Jamila Mayers (below) to lock in a sponsorship level or learn more.
Registration is now open for a unique new certificate program for women in health care leadership — this March 12-13 in Irvine.
UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business has a longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion and is the No. 1 business school in the world for percentage of female faculty (Financial Times, 2019). For this program, UCI has partnered with the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC), a historically-strong hospital trade association with a commitment to education.
Mark your calendar on Thursday, March 5 for a presentation on the current state of labor unions in the U.S. and California health care industries. HASC’s State of the Unions: Organized Labor Review Webinar offers a detailed overview of the trends now affecting organized labor and how they impact health care organizations.
At the end of this course participants will be able to:
The following HASC Education Programs are now open for enrollment. Reserve seats for your team today. With any questions, please contact Jamila Mayers, HASC education program director (below).
CLC presenters Rick Rawson (from left), Dora Barilla, Kevin Barnett and Susan Harrington posed for a photo before an Oct. 30 AGLH session at Beverly Hospital in Montebello.
Over 100 hospital executives and hospital board members (from 27 hospitals) and public health department leaders attended Alignment of Governance and Leadership in Healthcare: Building Momentum for Transformation (AGLH) half-day trainings held in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties in 2019.
Course presenter Kirstin Muller of the Hirschfeld Kraemer legal firm (center right, background) worked with attendees during an interactive portion of Nov. 15’s Understanding and Managing Leaves of Absence.
Over 30 participants signed up for and attended Nov. 15’s Understanding and Managing Leaves of Absence, a HASC education offering at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
Lernik Herabidian of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (from left) joined Cheryl Boyd, Amy Hartnett and Marcia Penido of Huntington Memorial Hospital at Nov. 7’s session on transgender patient care.
As Thanksgiving approaches, we’re thankful that the wildfires that scorched our state recently are no longer an imminent threat. Over the past two months, Californians endured the dual hardships of wildfires and public safety power shutoffs — which disproportionately affected patients and providers.
As incidents of workplace violence continue to increase in the health care industry, hospital managers are looking for ways to protect employees and patients. Experts agree that prevention is the best way to protect both against violent acts.
HASC College to Career Diversity Internship Program (CDIP) is a 10-week summer internship, in partnership with Health Career Connection (HCC) and is designed to collectively accelerate diversity and achieve equity in health care by exposing talented, diverse college students to instructive, rigorous and meaningful projects important to your hospital.
Thank you to all of the hospitals and interns that participated in the 2019 College to Career Diversity Internship Program (CDIP) to make this year a great success!
Please read on to learn more about the program — and how it can benefit your team. CDIP is now recruiting participant organizations for 2020.
The following HASC Education Programs are now open for enrollment. Reserve seats for your team today! With any questions, please contact Jamila Mayers, HASC Education Program Director (below).
Friday, Nov. 1: Leadership Charge Nurse: Creating a Culture of Safety. This advanced class for charge nurses focuses on the role of the nurse leader in creating and developing an open atmosphere where all team members collaborate on safety. www.hasc.org/2019-creating-culture-of-safety.
This week, settlement recovery service MCAG, a HASC Endorsed Business Partner, announces the following settlements – with accompanying application deadlines.
To learn more about MCAG’s services, contact Darryl Sanford, HASC Director, Member Relations & Association Services (below).
The SpeedTrack health care utilization platform, a HASC Endorsed Business Partner, recently added calendar year 2018 OSHPD data to its advanced database.
Instead of relying on pre-defined queries and canned reports, SpeedTrack, which is based in Irvine, empowers decision-makers to use their own knowledge and intuition to explore the dataset to identify trends and outcomes.
NHF Relationship Manager Camille Demano (second from left) joined NHF Program Coordinator Lauren Brunet (right) in organizing fun activities for attendees at the foundation’s second-annual Block Party this month.
HASC recently completed a meaningful study on person-centered care. Successful strategies and lessons learned are shared in a report published by the association.
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