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Suicide takes a disproportionate toll on health care workers during normal times and deserves more attention in the ramped-up environment of the ongoing pandemic, speaker Lauren Walton, MD told HASC Hospital Operations Committee members this week.
Dr. Lauren M. Walton is chief of service for the department of addiction medicine at Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center.
A workshop offered by HASC and presented by Communities Lifting Communities and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California provides an overview of the role hospitals can play in advancing health equity across their organizations and in the communities they serve.
The all-day session takes place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 via Zoom. Class size is limited to 30, so enroll today by clicking here to reserve your spot.
To help support hospitals in advancing their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, HASC invites you to participate in a 90-minute roundtable discussion from noon to 1:30 p.m. this coming Monday, Sept. 14.
Dr. Stanley Frencher, Jr. is medical director of surgical outcomes and quality at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital and lead physician, urology at Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center. He is also assistant professor-in-residence at UCLA’s Department of Urology — and an active medical researcher with close to two dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals.
HASC and Hospital Council — Northern & Central California welcomed employment services firm Accurate Background as an endorsed business partner last week. Now the Irvine-based firm invites association members to a one-hour webinar outlining its employment screening services.
The no-cost session runs from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17. Click here to register you and your team.
The Charge Nurse: Critical Thinking for RNs course is set for presentation via online video link from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The session is open to HASC and Hospital Council – Northern & Central California members.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2020 — The Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) and Hospital Council – Northern & Central California (Hospital Council) have exclusively endorsed Accurate Background, an Irvine, CA-based leading provider of compliant background checks, drug and health screening and Form I-9 verifications, for employment screening services. The endorsement provides member hospitals with a comprehensive portfolio of employment screening, verifications and compliance tools.
HASC Endorsed Business Partner Merritt Hawkins has released its annual examination of the starting salaries and other incentives used to recruit physicians nationwide. Now in its 27th year, the firm’s Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives provides national benchmark data on physician recruiting incentives as well as a comprehensive analysis of the physician recruiting market.
HASC invites you to a free webcast: AMN Open Talent Marketplace. The webcast features Medefis, a vendor management system that comes with a pre-vetted network of nursing, respiratory, and physician contingent personnel. The session is presented by AMN Vice President, Business Development Doug Janes from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Aug. 20.
COVID-19 challenges facilities with high-acuity patients who need critical care for acute respiratory illness. Atlas Lift Tech’s staff is an extension of the hospital’s care team assisting with proning and mobilizing – and with preventing pressure injuries, extended length-of-stay, and worker injury.
Click here to view State Sen. Holly Mitchell’s remarks along with comments from other participants at July 24’s event. (Above image is a still photo only.)
A pair of Huntington Hospital employees in Pasadena posed with an appreciation poster created by a CHA/Our Health California project aimed at sharing Californians’ gratitude with frontline workers.
HASC Strategic Partner Wipfli, a leading accounting and business consulting firm with a focus on health care, invites association members to attend a no-cost Healthcare Connections webinar this coming Tuesday.
Join us on Friday, Aug. 28, for a one-day virtual workshop offered by HASC and presented by Communities Lifting Communities (CLC) and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California (Alliance). The workshop will cover foundational concepts central to advancing health equity across organizations and in the communities served.
It will cover the difference between equity and equality in a health care setting, the root causes of health inequities and impact of implicit bias and racism on health outcomes.
This week we learned of C. Duane Dauner’s tragic death in a solo auto wreck not far from his Palm Desert home. We are shocked and saddened. We mourn for him and for his surviving family members — wife Diane and his children and grandchildren.
In Orange County, the California Office of Emergency Services is partnering with OCMA/CMA to distribute medical grade PPE equipment to qualifying small and medium sized medical practices of 50 physicians and under.
“Our greatest need is for volunteers to work the two events,” said Jim Peterson, Orange County Medical Association’s executive director.
Physician search firm Merritt Hawkins offers a webinar titled, Will There be a Doctor in the House? Physician Supply, Demand, and Staffing in the Era of COVID-19 from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 16. Reserve your place by clicking here.
HASC hosts a pair of webinars with Collective Medical this month presenting the firm’s easy-to-implement solution that helps hospitals meet new CMS requirements.
HASC Endorsed Business Partner ButterFLi, which delivers on-demand and scheduled transportation to people with special needs, offers a webinar from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8.
Reserve spots for you and your team now by clicking here. Feel free to forward the reservation link to others who may be interested.
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