CLC presenters Rick Rawson (from left), Dora Barilla, Kevin Barnett and Susan Harrington posed for a photo before an Oct. 30 AGLH session at Beverly Hospital in Montebello.

Over 100 hospital executives and hospital board members (from 27 hospitals) and public health department leaders attended Alignment of Governance and Leadership in Healthcare: Building Momentum for Transformation (AGLH) half-day trainings held in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties in 2019.

Led by Dr. Kevin Barnett, senior investigator with the Public Health Institute (PHI), with contributions by Dora Barilla, GVP, Community Health Investment at Providence St. Joseph Health, and Rick Rawson, President at Adventist Health and Rideout, participants increased their understanding of population health concepts and strategies. Participants also discussed building institutional capacity and alignment, as well as engaging partners and key stakeholders across the region to address social determinants.

Feedback from participants included:

• “Very thought-provoking and helped us assess where we are and how to get the work completed.”
• “Absolutely incredible discussion!”
• “Excellent topic/timely/good discussion.”
• “Great relationship building.”
• “Great starting point for collaborative population health alignment.”
• “Thoughtful approach in creating change and tools to consider.”

Training dates will be available soon for 2020, so begin to think about who will be on your hospital team.

Thank you to members who hosted the training, including:

• Kaiser Permanente Moreno Valley Medical Center
• Mission Hospital Laguna Beach
• Community Memorial Hospital
• Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital
• Beverly Hospital

Thank you to our funders including:

• HASC member hospitals
• AllHealth
• Blue Shield of California Foundation
• The California Endowment

A reminder as weather patterns change this week — HASC and Communities Lifting Communities are partnering with Bob Barker Company, Inc. to offer hospitals and other health care and homeless services providers a discount on weather-appropriate clothing. Association member and/or providers of services to homeless individuals are able to take advantage of an average discount of 25 percent on clothing, undergarments, jackets, ponchos, shoes and socks in many sizes.

Why is providing weather-appropriate clothing a necessity?

As of July 1, Senate Bill 1152 requires hospitals to document help and services provided to homeless patients and set plans to ensure those patients can be offered options other than an immediate return to the street. The law also requires hospitals to provide meals and weather-appropriate clothing to homeless patients when they’re needed, and to offer them transportation to their next destination when they are discharged — if it’s within 30 miles or 30 minutes of the hospital.

Fourteen hospitals and health systems are currently participating. To learn more and create an account, visit: https://clc.bobbarker.com.

Contact:
Susan Harrington
(213) 538-0717
sharrington@hasc.org