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.

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.

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.