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The HASC Board of Directors welcomed CNI
College of Santa Ana as a new associate member at its
Nov. 12 meeting. CNI College provides academic educational
opportunities in allied health disciplines for the intellectual,
social, and professional development of a diverse student
population.
Presenters Rick Rawson (from left), Dora Barilla, Kevin Barnett and Susan Harrington pose at a Beverly Hospital AGLH session in 2019.
Health care leaders from the San Gabriel Valley are invited to attend a special Alignment of Governance and Leadership in Healthcare: Building Momentum for Transformation, or AGLH, online training event on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
HASC has partnered with PPE.Exchange — a supplier of personal protective equipment that is teaming with hospital associations and health care organizations across the country to improve access and reduce pricing for much needed PPE.
Alvin Powell, MD was featured speaker at Thursday’s HASC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group meeting.
Two dozen attendees discussed how the history of hospital desegregation can help chart paths forward at HASC’sDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Roundtable on Nov. 5.
The following HASC Education Programs are now open for enrollment. Reserve seats for your team today! With any questions, please contact HASC Education Program Director Jamila Mayers (below).
The Joint Commission and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) recognize that safe patient care begins when hospital units have such extensive teamwork in place that all staff feel safe bringing concerns and ideas to improve care forward.
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented changes and challenges to the health care workforce. Prior to the pandemic, the field already experienced record rates of burnout among clinicians and workers.
The effects of burnout can be disastrous, both for your team and your patients. What can you do to prevent it? And how can we leverage the current crisis to reinforce professionalism and resiliency to create stronger, more patient-centric organizations?
Dr. Alvin Powell of Cone Health stands with a North Carolina marker that commemorates the 1963 landmark case, Simkins v. Cone.
There is a long history of racial inequity and discrimination in the U.S. health system. Data on racial and ethnic patterns of COVID-19 also show that Black and other people of color are disproportionately impacted by today’s pandemic.
The following HASC Education Programs are now open for enrollment. Reserve seats for your team today! With any questions, please contact HASC Education Program Director Jamila Mayers (below).
The Health Workforce Initiative (HWI), a HASC workforce initiative partner, is offering a no-cost, three-part workshop series on Implicit Bias, Cultural Proficiency and Language Justice to help health care providers and educators understand and address implicit bias as a barrier to health equity and health care effectiveness.
Providers deliver effective care when addressing patient populations sensitively. Dr. Kristie Overstreet’s dignity-first approach empowers health care professionals to serve transgender and related patients in the most effective and appropriate manner.
HASC’s Communities Lifting Communities continues to partner with the North Carolina-based Bob Barker Company to offer hospitals and other health care and homeless service providers a discount on weather-appropriate clothing.
Mike Marelli is vice president, business customer service for Southern California Edison, the wide-ranging utility that provides service to 14 million people across 50,000 square miles and 12 counties.
HASC is involved in several regional efforts to address the limited supply of critical and life-saving Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including Logistics Victory Los Angeles (LoVLA) and the SoCal PPE Manufacturing Consortium. To further guide our efforts, we have formed a PPE supply chain task force comprised of hospital supply chain staff who serve as subject matter experts.
The Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) is proud to announce the launch of the new HASC Resource Center, a centralized hub that provides members with valuable resources, tools and information for organizations — together in one place.
Many materials are available to download with links to webinars, toolkits, speakers, and trainings. The resources are provided and organized by the content areas below:
The Joint Commission and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) recognize that safe patient care begins when hospital units have such extensive teamwork in place that all staff feel safe bringing concerns and ideas to improve care forward.
More than 40 participants came together to relate strategies and challenges on their paths toward more equitable care at Sept. 14’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Roundtable Discussion hosted by HASC and Darren Henson, PhD, director of operations with the American Hospital Association’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Three new facilities are approved for membership
following the Aug. 26 HASC Board meeting. Learn more about
HASC membership here.
HASC welcomes the following hospitals aboard!
Kedren Community Health Center, Los Angeles
Kedren Community Health Center operates as a not-for-profit
hospital and is primarily an acute psychiatric facility with 72
beds. Yolanda Whittington is CEO.
Eight percent of physicians have closed their practices as a result of COVID-19, totaling approximately 16,000 practices across the U.S., according to a new survey.
Providers deliver effective care when addressing patient populations sensitively. Dr. Kristie Overstreet’s dignity-first approach empowers health care professionals to serve transgender and related patients in the most effective and appropriate manner.
This Aug. 14-15, an extraordinary heat weather event prompted the
California Independent System Operator (CAISO) agency to
institute the first series of rolling blackouts in 19 years. The
measure was necessary to parcel out energy in the face of huge
power consumption due to air conditioning demand.
CAISO is made up of California’s three investor-owned utilities,
which includes Southern California Edison (SCE). This month,
Edison reminds customers that future heat events might
prompt additional rolling power outages.
HASC Endorsed Business Partner SpeedTrack understands that the 21st century requires a new paradigm for information technology — one in which the consumers of information determine what information is valuable, when they need it, and how to view it!
Traditional solutions deliver preconfigured dashboards and canned reports to answer questions deemed critical for you to know. The problem is that:
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