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Hospitalist medicine, still a relatively new area of practice,
recently marked its 20th anniversary.
The term refers to doctors who focus on work in hospitals,
instead of any single medical specialty.
A white paper by HASC endorsed business partner Merritt Hawkins
provides a detailed summary of the term and its history. To read
the complete paper, please click below.
An excerpt from the white paper is included below.
What is your hospital doing to innovate and adapt to the new
environment? Are you willing to showcase your leading-edge
work? We invite you to present your hospital’s improvement
project at the 2018 HASC Annual Meeting. Your creative,
innovative solutions are important to all of our members. All
breakout sessions will be held Thursday, April 12.
The Hospital Association of Southern California is pleased to
offer a Class Action Settlement Recovery Service (SRS) through
its strategic partnership with Managed Care Advisory Group,
LLC (MCAG). MCAG has distributed over $225 million to thousands
of customers as a result of its services.
Nov. 14’s HASC Charity Golf Classic raised close to
$40,000 for National Health Foundation’s work addressing
health-related disparities in underserved
communities.
Over the past decade, the fundraiser has brought in more than
$600,000 for NHF programs like Pathway Recuperative Care — which
provides housing for homeless patients upon their release from
acute care. Other NHF initiatives include Health Academy,
which teaches students about nutrition, and a Teen Parenting
program.
With the California Hospital Association, the Hospital
Association of Southern California backs state ballot
Proposition 52, which would extend a hospital fee program
that draws state matching funds to support Medi-Cal
services. Tested. Tried. True. Vote Yes on Prop. 52.
The associations also endorse propositions 55 and 56, and oppose
propositions 53 and 64.
The HASC Charity Golf Classic at Rancho Cucamonga’s Red Hill
Country Club will take place on Monday, Nov. 14.
Funds raised at the tournament benefit National Health
Foundation’s work supporting underserved communities. To date,
the autumn event has contributed more than $600,000 towards the
foundation’s mission.
Participants will experience Red Hill Country Club’s 1920s-era
course by architect George C. Thomas, Jr.
Medi-Cal now covers one in three Californians. But do one in
three Californians have access to primary care, preventative care
or anything other than emergent care? Not really.
Simply put – the costs of care are not adequately covered.
Safety-net providers and traditional medical providers, now
taking on an even greater share of the Medi-Cal population, are
struggling to adapt.
HASC, in collaboration with the California Hospital Association
and the Hospital Quality Institute, is leading a Person-Centered
Care Initiative, funded by The SCAN Foundation. The goal of this
three-year initiative is to assist provider communities
(hospitals and their primary care, post-acute, and
community-based organization partners) to deliver person-centered
care throughout the continuum. Such support is especially
critical for older adults with chronic conditions and functional
limitations.
HASC welcomes the following new associate members. To learn more
about associate membership, please click here.
The Emeree Group, LLC,
of Anaheim, www.theemereegroup.com The Emeree Group, LLC is a physician
security risk management firm that assists organizations to
assess their security risks and implement solutions.
The complex world of modern health care cannot have a single
definition of population health.
As the term population health grows in strength and as providers
grapple with how to build networks and deploy services to
implement it, one can’t help but ask, what exactly is population
health?
Early on, it was simply defined as trying to understand the
determinants of health of populations. Now, let’s fast forward to
today’s world of the Triple Aim, rapid system collaboration
models, ACOs and new payment delivery incentives.
More than 500 attendees, including 53 sponsors,
made HASC’s 2016 Annual Meeting a stellar success.
The meeting took place April 13-15 at the Bacara resort in
Santa Barbara County. Next year’s HASC Annual Meeting is also
scheduled at Bacara, for April 5-7, 2017.
The 2016 theme, Uber-Bold: Moving Health Care Beyond
Incremental Change, was summed up by industry
innovator Glenn Steele in an opening address.
More than 70 golfers joined over a dozen sponsors
at Oct. 5’s HASC Charity Golf Classic, where they enjoyed
mild, early-autumn weather while raising more than
$50,000.
Over the past decade, the fundraiser has brought in $605,000 for
the HASC-affiliated National Health Foundation, NHF Board Chair
Jess Womack said at the event.
It is my pleasure to announce that Martin Gallegos (Marty) has
accepted my offer to be HASC’s Senior Vice President for Health
Policy and Communications.
For the past 11 years, Marty has been the Senior Vice
President/Chief Legislative Advocate for the California Hospital
Association (CHA). From 2001-2002 he was the Director,
California Office of the Patient Advocate (Governor Gray Davis
appointment).
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Hospital Hero Awards,
held Friday, Nov. 9, at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
Produced by HASC and benefiting the National Health Foundation, this
annual media event honors health care professionals who are
dedicated to patient care and those who help to create miracles
for patients. It is an opportunity for hospitals to recognize
the outstanding achievements and events that occur at the
front line throughout the HASC region.
The Emeree Group, LLC is a physician
security risk management firm that assists organizations to
assess their security risks and implement solutions.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is a broker and risk management services firm in the insurance industry. 
Interstate Rehabilitation Services is a provider of physical, occupational and speech therapy services. 
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