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HASC’s workforce initiative partner, Azusa Pacific University, or APU, is offering a perioperative RN specialty course this fall. 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’s ReddiNet® Emergency Medical Communications Service this month announces Merced County’s arrival on the platform.
“It’s our great pleasure to welcome Merced County to the ReddiNet family, effective Oct. 1,” said Soraya Peters, HASC Senior VP, ReddiNet Health Care Communications Technology. ”We are pleased to have them join our family of great customers!”
Michelle Morse, MD, MPH (from left) and Louis Hart, MD shared lessons from their work leading health equity change in New York and Boston with CLC’s June 29 Cherished Futures collaborative.
COVID-19 infections are continuing a steep climb, with hospitalizations now surpassing the 3,000 mark — a number we haven’t seen since late February. The 30-day increase is a staggering 370 percent across our six-county region and projections signal an upward trajectory. This increase, driven by the highly-infectious Delta variant, is having a devastating impact among the unvaccinated.
After experiencing the lowest levels of COVID-19 since last year, hospitalizations in Southern California have swelled by close to 280 percent in the last month. The rapidly rising numbers, the spread of the infectious Delta variant, and unvaccinated populations are concerning as they signal continued increases in hospitalizations over the coming weeks.
Southern California Edison (SCE) offers the following alert for hospitals on the utility’s Medical Baseline Allowance program. If a patient or someone in a patient’s household requires the regular use of electrically-powered medical equipment or other qualifying medical devices they may quality for the program, which provides more electricity at the lowest baseline rate to help offset the cost of operating medical equipment.
Darryl Sanford, HASC Director, Member Relations & Association Services, commented on association Endorsed Business Partner bttn. in an interview with global transportation news site FreightWaves.
Working with member hospitals, public health agencies and health plans from across the region, HASC has crafted a social media and communications toolkit that underlines the key role vaccination plays in halting the COVID-19 Delta variant. The toolkit’s messaging is designed to resonate with communities that have lower vaccination rates — including Black, Latinx, and younger adults.
Physician search firm Merritt Hawkins, a HASC Endorsed Business Partner, invites members to review and download its 2021 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives. See links below.
Over the past year, through supply chain optimization and city purchasing expertise, Logistics Victory LA (LoVLA), an initiative of the City of Los Angeles, provided hospitals, first responders and other health care organizations an opportunity to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) from the City of Los Angeles at cost.
HASC Endorsed Business Partner bttn. is offering a monthly bttn. Market Report exploring supply-chain issues affecting personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies critical for hospital operations.
bttn. is a Washington state-based medical supply procurement startup aimed at assisting health care organizations across the country with procurement and cost savings.
HASC’s Salarity website is poised to launch its biennial HR Metrics Survey on Monday, Aug. 2. The response period runs through Friday, Sept. 10. Visit Salarity to enroll.
Salarity is the provider of the Allied for Health Surveys – a California statewide data resource to help hospitals make smarter decisions. Other products include the Hot Jobs, Executive, Management, Non-Management Compensation, and Union Penetration surveys.
HASC’s LEAD Academy leadership training program is the association’s longest-running and most popular education offering. This year’s second virtual series starts on Friday, Aug. 6 and runs biweekly through Jan. 21.
The online synchronous sessions run from 8:30 – 11 a.m., Pacific Time. Cost is $162 per module. Click here to learn more and register.
California Department of Public Health recently issued a 60-day notice stating that temporary waivers of specified regulatory requirements will expire on Sept. 30, 2021. Additionally, OSHPD has notified hospitals that all temporary changes of use, or modification to the physical environment, must be restored to original condition by Nov. 11 (six weeks after expiration of the waiver).
Ground yourself in the essentials necessary to be a standout leader. Synchronous Advanced LEAD Academy is the perfect next step for those who want exposure to more advanced skills, and for people who have basic leadership skills and want to explore their leadership potential.
Ten comprehensive and engaging online training modules strengthen competencies and cultivate skills of leaders at any level of the organization looking to broaden their skills and outlook.
In recent months, we’ve been fortunate to experience plummeting COVID-19 cases and the easing of restrictions — both signaling that we’re on the path to pre-pandemic life. Much of this downward trend has been driven by science-based safety protocols and COVID-19 vaccinations.
From left: HASC Director, Member Relations & Association Services Darryl Sanford with July 14 speakers Harving Parra of CHOC Children’s and Mark Reed of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital. William S. Marcisz of Strategic Security Management Consulting Inc. (not pictured) is also scheduled to speak.
HASC’s Security and Safety Committee meets from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 14 via Zoom videoconference.
Huntington Hospital’s Pamela Weatherspoon is lead speaker at HASC’s continuing DEI roundtable series this month.
HASC hosts its next Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Roundtable from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 8. Pamela Weatherspoon, Huntington Hospital Vice President, Enterprise Diversity, Equity & Inclusion will share a view of how the Pasadena facility is conducting its own DEI initiative.
The American Red Cross, and other organizations that distribute blood products, report critical supply shortages across the Inland Empire this month. HASC reminds all health care providers that summer is an excellent time to discuss with their communities the need for blood donors — and the critical service that donors provide.
UC San Francisco (UCSF), in partnership with HASC and FutureSense, has launched a Community Health Worker/Promotor (CHW/P) Survey. The survey is part of a larger study, approved by UCSF’s Institutional Review Board, examining the CHW/P workforce in California that will inform community stakeholders and support future CHW/P planning efforts in the state.
This survey is important to hospitals because it will provide insight on:
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