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- 2012 Key Issues
- Health Care Reform
- Financial Viability and Performance Improvement
- Community Health Improvement
- Patient Safety and Quality
- Workforce Effectiveness and Supply
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- Emergency Planning
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The hospital members of the Hospital Council are organized by geographically-defined sections.- Central Coast
The Central Coast section is comprised of the County of San Luis Obispo. - East Bay
The East Bay section is comprised of Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano Counties. - Fresno / Madera
The Fresno / Madera section is comprised of Fresno and Madera counties. - Kern / Eastern Sierra
The Kern / Eastern Sierra section is comprised of Inyo, Kern and Mono Counties. - Monterey Bay
The Monterey Bay section is comprised of Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties. - North Bay
The North Bay section is comprised of Marin, Napa and Sonoma Counties. - Northern Sierra
Northern Sierra section is comprised of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou & Tehama Counties. - Redwood Coast
The Redwood Coast section is comprised of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. - Sacramento / Sierra
The Sacramento / Sierra section is comprised of El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba Counties. - San Francisco
The San Francisco section is comprised of San Francisco County. - San Joaquin / Mother Lode
The San Joaquin / Mother Lode section is comprised of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, San Joaquin and Tuolumne Counties. - San Mateo
The San Mateo section is comprised of San Mateo County. - Santa Clara
The Santa Clara section is comprised of Santa Clara County. - Stanislaus / Merced
The Stanislaus / Merced section is comprised of Mariposa, Merced and Stanislaus Counties. - Tulare / Kings
The Tulare / Kings section is comprised of Kings and Tulare Counties.
- Central Coast
- Quality & Patient Safety
Quality & Patient Safety Initiatives- California Hospital Engagement Network (CALHEN)
- Patient Safety First ... a California Partnership for Health (PSF)
BEACON Greater Sacramento and Central Valley - Case Management Transformation Initiative (CMTI)
- LEAN Training Courses
LEAN Program and Training - Medication Safety
- Wound and Skin Care Education
- Resources- Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
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- African American Health Disparities Project
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Advocacy
Advocacy
Government plays an integral part of virtually every hospital operation—whether it be reimbursements, regulations, or inspections. Our political advocacy program is essential to tell the “hospital story at the federal, state or local level. While CHA directs the efforts in both the Congress, the State Legislature, and the State and Federal Administration, the Hospital Council tells the story to Members of Congress and State Legislature when they are home and when working with their local staffs.
Hospital-Physician Relations
Physician-Hospital Relations
Physicians are essential to a hospital’s ability to care for patients. Changing demographics, the cost of living in California, declining physician incomes, changing physician lifestyles are leading to physician shortages and reduced access to care. Health Reform will require greater coordination of care that can only happen if physicians and hospitals work together. The Hospital Council provides a variety of educational, collaborative, and technical assistance opportunities to help hospitals achieve greater alignment with community physicians.
Behavioral Health Services
Behavioral Health Services
The Hospital Council leads local coalitions seeking to engage public and private behavioral health providers in creating local solutions that assist patients and relieve the negative impact on hospital emergency departments. This is vital as the number of beds in acute psychiatric hospitals continues to decline in California, and as county budgets contract and local behavioral health services are reduced or eliminated.
Emergency Medical Services & Disaster Preparedness
Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Preparedness
Hospital Council assists hospitals to address emergency department and trauma issues including physician on-call availability, emergency department crowding, local regulations, ambulance service contracts and communications.
Finance
Financial Viability
Hospitals exist to care for people. This mission depends upon financially viable operations. The Hospital Council seeks to help ensure the financial health of hospitals with technical assistance, local advocacy and other services.
Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform
The Affordable Care Act signed in to law in March of 2010 by President Obama is the most sweeping set of changes to the healthcare delivery system since the enactment of MediCare and MediCaid. Over the next several years, major changes will occur at the federal state and local level. The Council will work to assist members deal with the changes and will represent hospitals at the county level as changes financing and delivery of healthcare to MediCal and Medically Indigent Adults occurs.
Patient Safety, Quality and Public Reporting
Patient Safety, Quality & Public Reporting
Hospitals are engaged in an era of unprecedented change and its demands on hospitals to do things differently. The issues of public reporting and transparency, payments for safety and quality, the necessity of providing “high-value” to purchasers, coupled with significant payment reductions and the need to reduce costs, will continue to create challenges within our healthcare delivery systems. The Hospital Council is engaging in education and peer-to-peer learning opportunities to help all hospitals to implement changes and to do so with greater staff acceptance. The changes taking place (healthcare reform) in the hospital field require significant and rapid change and redesign of the way work is coordinated. Coordination of care over time and across sites holds promise to improve safety and quality outcomes.
Workforce
Workforce
Hospital Council helps hospitals to meet their need for nurses, allied health care workers and other medical professionals in short supply through local partnerships with educational institutions, workforce investment boards and other community and business groups.
Through our Healthcare Laboratory Workforce Initiative (HLWI), Hospital Council leads a statewide effort to find innovative solutions to California’s laboratory workforce shortage.