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Jill Welton is President/CEO at Dignity Health – Glendale Memorial Hospital. She has been with Dignity Health for the past six years, most recently as vice president, chief operating officer/chief nursing officer at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. Welton earned her master’s in nursing from Holy Names University in Oakland, and her bachelor’s in nursing from Cal State Hayward.
PathWays participant Madeline Frederick of Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles took part in the 2017 program.
Up-and-coming health care professionals get a boost from the
PathWays: Healthcare Policy in Action career development program
sponsored by HASC and Health Care Executives of Southern
California. Each year, a cohort selected from a pool of
candidates attends four sessions — where health care leaders
share insights and inspiration to propel participants toward
their next career objective.
Launched in 2015, AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act to
Eliminate Health Care Disparities urges hospital and
health system leaders to support access across socioeconomic
lines by examining race, ethnicity and language preference data,
advancing cultural competency training, and increasing leadership
diversity. The initiative also aims to improve and strengthen
community capacity.
Hospital Quality Institute invites HASC-area quality managers to
a Wednesday, July 27 webinar covering the latest patient safety
and quality improvement measures. Taking place 9 – 11 a.m., the
session will provide an opportunity for CNOs, CMOs and others to:
As an informational service to HASC members, Healthcare Benefits
Alliance, or HBA, offers a webcast on its
unique coverage solutions — which deliver
significant savings — from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
HBA offers hospitals and health systems access to certain
group insurance coverages designed exclusively for the health
care industry. Instead of competing with existing brokers,
HBA welcomes existing brokers to the program.
HASC’s education programs provide a cost and time-effective way
for health professionals and staff to enhance their skills. Dates
have been set for several programs and space is available for the
following programs:
Hospital Operations Committee co-chair Ann Abe (left) is
administrator/COO at Orange County Global Medical Center.
Committee co-chair Robin Mackenroth (right) is COO at Kaiser
Permanente Riverside Medical Center.
The 2018 CHA-HASC Member Directory is now available to
association members.
HASC associate members, affiliates, strategic partners and
endorsed business partners will receive a separate
communication with their directory access information.
The fully-searchable directory is available online – providing
details on more than 400 California hospitals and health systems
– including contact information for over 6,500 top
management roles.
Friday, June 8 is a national day of awareness for violence
prevention that calls for ending violence in the community and
workplace. Sponsored by the American Hospital Association with
the hashtag #HAVhope, for hospitals against violence, the event
focuses on an education campaign to raise awareness, with
hospitals posting photos and messages supporting violence
prevention to their social media accounts.
Using proper equipment and procedures to move non-ambulatory
patients is critical for ensuring the safety of patients and
hospital staff. Photo: Atlas Lift Tech
HASC Endorsed Business Partner Atlas Lift Tech offers members a
practical webinar on safe patient handling and mobility on
Wednesday, June 20. The web-based event, presented in 4K
ultra-high resolution format, runs from noon to 1 p.m.
Members are invited to join an informational webinar with HASC
Endorsed Business Partner Healthcare Benefits
Alliance (HBA) in three weeks. The session,
titled Using HBA To Reduce Employee Benefits
Costs, runs from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday,
June 27.
Saul Locker, president of Alexander Benefits Consulting, which
administers HBA, will lead the session.
Thank you to members for being a part of our first 2018 HASC
College to Career Internship Program (CCDIP). With your
help, our partner, Health Career Connection (HCC) has placed 89
percent of the CCDIP interns with preceptors at hospital
host sites.
If you haven’t taken advantage of the opportunity, there’s
still time to host a summer career intern. Please scroll below
for the signup link.
SafeGuard Asset Recovery is HASC’s newest endorsed business
partner. The firm offers HIPAA-compliant processing and
audit reporting for all retired and obsolete health care related
IT (computers, laptops, servers) and medical equipment, including
certified hard drive destruction. SafeGuard also provides
quarterly sustainability reports to support your in-house
sustainability efforts.
With this month’s agreement, SafeGuard joins more than a dozen
vetted businesses in the HASC Endorsed Business Partner
program.
Woodbury University’s Agency for Civic Engagement Director
Jeanine Centuori (foreground left) poses with school architecture
students and concepts created for NHF’s Los Angeles recuperative
care facility. At rear is the early 20th century sanitarium now
being converted into the facility. Photo: Rachael Buechler
Opposing California Assembly Bill 3087, legislation that would
set reimbursement rates for the state’s hospitals and
other providers, is a policy priority for the California
Hospital Association (CHA) and HASC. Writing in the Sacramento
Bee, CHA President/CEO Carmela Coyle recently warned that, if
passed, the law could result in as many as 175,000
layoffs. CHA estimates that hospitals statewide would lose
$18 billion annually — the financial impact to hospitals in Los
Angeles County might total $3.4 billion annually.
Launched in 2015, AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act to
Eliminate Health Care Disparities urges hospital and
health system leaders to accelerate progress toward eliminating
health disparities, increasing quality of care and advancing
diversity and inclusion in health care.
Hospitals are being asked to make the efforts a priority. As of
last summer, just 73 of California’s more than 400 hospitals and
health systems had endorsed the pledge.
Santa Barbara County’s Department of Behavioral Wellness recently
received a $1.2 million grant to support its mental health triage
services. With this funding, the department aims to reduce wait
times and 5150 holds — especially for youth in crisis — in county
emergency departments.
California’s Mental Health Services Oversight & Accountability
Commission is the grant source.
The HASC region is currently at 37 percent of
the association’s annual fundraising goal for the California
Hospital Association Political Action Committee, or CHPAC.
“Participation in CHPAC is critical to our advocacy efforts and
efforts to support candidates who share our values,” HASC Vice
President for External Affairs and Strategic Communications
Jennifer Bayer said.
Please appoint a CHPAC Campaign Coordinator for your facility
today. HASC staff will provide the necessary coordination to make
your campaign a success!
A two-webinar series presented by the Hospital Quality Institute
in June offers hospital managers new strategies to minimize
noise, promote healing, and increase HCAHPS scores on Quietness
of Hospital Environment.
The Hospital Association of Southern California invites you to
attend a webinar to learn about effective strategies for
community health investment. In this webinar, hosted by
HealthBegins, HASC’s George Greene and Mark Gamble and
HealthBegin’s founder, Dr. Rishi Manchanda, will explain how to
set strategic social-determinants targets using a simple tool
called the Upstream Strategy Compass — while balancing the many
priorities of community partners and hospitals.
Police searched Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana
this morning following a credible threat –
received via the facility’s internal phone system –
from a man claiming to have a gun. Around 8:15 a.m., a Code
Silver and lockdown were declared. Hospital staff
sheltered in place for close to three hours.
By 11:30 a.m., the lockdown was lifted. No gunman was found –
and the hospital resumed normal operations.
Paul Young (above) attended Honolulu’s prestigious Punahou
School before earning bachelor of education and MBA degrees at
the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Paul Young, recently of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii,
joined HASC’s senior management team in April as senior vice
president, reimbursement.
Young spent more than seven years as the Hawaii association’s
manager of reimbursement before advancing to associate vice
president. Before that, he spent a dozen years with Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of Hawaii.
A crew placed a modular component at Aurora Vista del Mar
Hospital on April 20 to replace the administration building lost
in the Thomas Fire on Dec. 4. The singed Mexican fan palms serve
as a reminder of the blaze’s intensity.
On the night of Dec. 4, the Thomas Fire razed two key structures
at Aurora Vista del Mar Hospital – a behavioral health facility
just north of Ventura. For nearly four months, 75 percent of
Ventura County’s psychiatric beds, and a large proportion of its
psychiatric outpatient services, were shut down.
Holly Austin Gibbs (above), who experienced trafficking
firsthand, shared her story with session attendees. Austin Gibbs
today is human trafficking response program director at Dignity
Health.
What would you do if a human trafficking victim presented in your
ED or clinic? What are your health care organization’s policies
and procedures regarding suspected trafficking victims? What
resources have you secured and aligned to help combat this
growing issue?
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