Stark Law Regulatory Changes and Enforcement Trends
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Time: 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Location: GNYHA Conference Center,
555 West 57th Street, 15th Floor
This briefing will cover recent changes to the physician self-referral law-or "Stark law"-regulations, and enforcement trends relating to the Stark law and other fraud and abuse control areas. The briefing will feature attorneys from the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Office of the New York State Attorney General, Civil Enforcement Unit, along with health care attorneys from the firm of King & Spalding LLP. Though the participating government attorneys are focused on New York State developments, there will be a discussion of national activities as well. For more information, contact Deborah Brown (brown@gnyha.org), and to register, contact Asali Daniel (adaniel@gnyha.org) at GNYHA.
The Colors of Safety Initiative: Color-Coding Identifiers for Alert Conditions
Date: November 15, 2007
Time: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: GNYHA Conference Center,
555 West 57th Street , New York, 15th Floor
GNYHA and the Continuing Care Leadership Coalition (CCLC) have developed a voluntary initiative, The Colors of Safety Across the Continuum of Care, to enhance patient safety by standardizing the color-coding of specific alert conditions across acute and long term care settings. The initiative seeks to spread the awareness of the meaning of the various color-coded identifiers used across health care settings to clinical and non-clinical staff as well as to patients and their families. GNYHA and CCLC believe that this initiative will reduce the potential for error in misidentification of patients and certain associated alert conditions, reduce the time needed to orient staff to institutional policies with regard to color coding for alert conditions, and lead to improved staff satisfaction. This "kick-off" briefing will introduce the initiative and provide members with a toolkit to use when educating staff on this new standardized approach. The NYS Department of Health will participate in the briefing. For more information, contact Roxanne Tena-Nelson at CCLC (tena-nelson@gnyha.org or 212-506-5412), Kelly Donohue at CCLC (donohue@cclcny.org or 212-506-5424), or Lorraine Ryan at GNYHA (ryan@gnyha.org or 212-506-5416).