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HASC Membership & Education Services Vice President Pat Wall
(right) presented outgoing Security and Safety Committee Chair
Darren Morgan with a commemorative plaque at the committee’s
April 27 meeting.
HASC on April 27 expressed sincere thanks to outgoing Security
and Safety Committee Chair Darren Morgan. Morgan is director of
security for Huntington Hospital in Pasadena and served on the
committee for the past seven years. He was committee chair from
2014 to last month.
HASC members are invited to a free webinar with association
endorsed business partner SUNRx. Titled Uninsured
Discount Prescription Cards, the online session
takes place from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 24. Joe Clark,
SUNRx Regional Manager, will present.
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.
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.
You’re invited to a free webinar with HASC endorsed business partner SUNRx. Titled Uninsured Discount Prescription Cards, the online session takes place from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 24. Joe Clark, SUNRx Regional Manager, will present.
The Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC), announces
that two RN Specialty training courses are available at
no cost for Los Angeles County hospitals to
prepare experienced RNs transitioning to new roles in
peri-operative nursing. HASC selected two
nursing schools, Azusa Pacific University (APU) and Mount Saint
Mary’s University (MSMU), which are offering
peri-operative RN specialty courses in summer and fall
2018.
Close to 500 attendees joined 49 sponsors for three
days of learning and networking at this month’s 2018 Annual
Meeting at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad.
Join us to relive the event with the accompanying images.
And, please make a note to reserve time for next year’s event,
set for May 1-3, 2019 at the La Quinta Resort & Club
in Palm Springs.
Bob Etebar of ETCO Homes (from left) joined John Baackes of
L.A. Care, Eric Pfahler and Mike Foley of HomeAid Los Angeles,
Kelly Bruno of NHF and Michael Hunn, chair of NHF’s board at
April 18’s groundbreaking for NHF’s most ambitious recuperative
care project to date.
On April 18, National Health Foundation — HASC’s charitable
partner — broke ground on a project to create critically-needed
recuperative care beds in the Pico-Union neighborhood of downtown
Los Angeles.
Improving teamwork at hospitals saves lives and reduces turnover
in facilities’ workforces. This spring, Hospital Quality
Institute (HQI), a HASC partner, invites facilities to
participate in a TeamSTEPPS Collaborative — where California
hospitals will benefit from mentored implementation and
peer-to-peer learning.
A Southern California cohort will launch in May, and a Northern
California cohort will launch in June.
The HASC region has reached 32 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
works 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 support to make your
campaign a success!
Advanced LEAD Academy is designed to provide leaders more
advanced skills than HASC’s basic LEAD Academy. The course held
the first of three sessions on April 18; session 2 will take
place May 23 and Session 3 on June 29.
Attendance at previous sessions is not required, and the May 23
and June 29 courses are open to a cross section of health
professionals.
Feedback from previous attendees has been extremely
positive:
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.
HASC and Collective Medical Technologies, Inc. this week
finalized a partnership that brings the firm’s EDIE
collaborative care management tool to member emergency department
physicians and managers.
“The EDIE system is a hospital standard in Washington
State, Oregon, the Bay Area, and several other states,”
said Kimberly Johnson, HASC association services director.
“We are proud to help bring this technology to Southern
California, and believe it will show a similar return
on investment for facilities here.”
HASC is moving from an individual LinkedIn account to a LinkedIn
Company Page.
If you’re “connected” to the old account, please take a minute to
visit the new page and “follow” us — you’ll have access to
regular posts and updates.
After piloting Los Angeles’s first recuperative care program a
decade ago, HASC partner National Health Foundation (NHF) will
break ground on a new facility in the city’s Pico Union
neighborhood April 18. In partnership with HomeAid Los Angeles
and ETCO Homes, NHF will renovate a 100-year-old,
currently-vacant sanitarium, transforming it into a healing,
trauma-informed recuperative care program, and expanding its
total service capacity from 52 to 100 beds. The new center is set
to open this fall.
HASC’s 2018 Annual Meeting takes center stage at the Park Hyatt
Aviara in Carlsbad, April 11-13.
Registration is still open. Space also remains for the Aviara
Golf Club best ball tournament on Wednesday, April 11.
On Friday morning, UC San Francisco’s Maria Raven will share
insight gained through the EDIE inter-hospital database. EDIE
allows member hospitals to access data on frequent ED utilizers –
including prescription records and care histories that are often
hard to access across facilities.
Treating every patient with dignity and respect is the goal of
every health care provider regardless of race, creed, color,
religion, sexual orientation or identity. Approaching
matters from a place of respect and service creates a safe and
welcoming space for patients identifying with any gender
expression and/or identification that may not necessarily match
the sex they were assigned at birth.
On Wednesday, March 7, registered nurses representing four of the
six HASC counties took part in the interactive scenarios and
group exercises for the association’s Charge Nurse
Development course. Participants gathered for a full-day of
discussion and training on the role of the charge nurse,
reviewing the many qualities and attributes of an effective nurse
leader.
HASC is pleased to announce that it has secured grant funding
from the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB), the Los
Angeles Basin Region’s Workforce Development Boards, and Anthem
Blue Cross to support two RN Specialty Training collaborative
projects this year.
According to the 2018 Healthcare Talent Scan by Health
Career Center and the American Hospital Association, as patient
populations become more diverse, providing culturally competent
care is more important than ever.
As noted in a separate AHA study, “organizations that are
culturally competent have improved health outcomes, increased
respect and mutual understanding from patients, and increased
participation from the local community.”
Implementing culturally competent care may also pay dividends on
an organization’s balance sheet.
HASC’s education programs provide a cost and time-effective way
for health professionals and staff to enhance their skills. Three
programs now have dates approaching – and space is available.
Effective April 1, all California hospitals and health care
facilities must provide staff with workplace violence prevention
training. Techniques for Effective Aggression Management,
or TEAM, endorsed by HASC and the Hospital Council of
Northern & Central California, provides easy, effective and
award-winning training to keep your organization in compliance
with these new regulations.
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