GNYHA has developed a compliance tool to help member hospitals align their policies and practices with the 2024 updates to the Hospital Financial Assistance Law (HFAL) and the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s (NYAG) recent focus on HFAL compliance. NYAG has been conducting affirmative reviews as part of a non-enforcement, technical assistance...

Retreat: March 19-20 Cover Page Powerpoint Related Materials CQFP March 2026 Retreat Agenda Introduction to Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Open Discussion: What is Quality? Introduction to the Landscape of Health Care, Health Reform, and the Role of Quality Quality Improvement Tools and Methodologies Regulatory & Accreditation: Intersection with Quality Defining the Problem & Forming a...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced EXPRESS NY, an initiative to address outdated and overly prescriptive State regulations, policies, and practices (but not laws). GNYHA has long advocated for the removal of unnecessary costs and regulatory burden from the health care delivery system. The State issued a similar request last fall. We intend to...

Yesterday afternoon, the nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian overwhelmingly ratified the tentative agreement they and management reached early Friday morning. The terms of that agreement are virtually identical to those of Mount Sinai and Montefiore, which their nurses overwhelmingly ratified previously. This concludes a very difficult period for the three systems and their staffs. As they transition...

GNYHA has been in touch with emergency management agencies in downstate New York and participated in interagency calls with New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) about the forecasted major nor’easter for NYC, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley. We have also received updates from the National Weather Service. NYS Governor Kathy Hochul has issued a...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has released 30-day amendments that modify her State fiscal year (SFY) 2027 Executive budget proposal. The 30-day amendments reflect an updated financial plan that accounts for $1 billion in additional managed care organization (MCO) tax revenue. As GNYHA notified you earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and Department of Health (DOH) recently issued updated joint guidance (attached) on regulations related to evaluation and discharge practices for behavioral health patients with complex needs. OMH regulations are codified in 14 NYCRR Parts 580 (Psychiatric Inpatient Units of General Hospitals), 582 (Hospitals for Persons with...

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) recently posted the initial enforcement penalties for the nursing home minimum staffing requirements. Twenty nursing homes were penalized for noncompliance with the minimum nursing staffing standards for the second quarter (Q2) 2022 through Q4 2023. This is the first time that DOH has enforced staffing penalties since...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has extended the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) strike-related declaration of emergency through February 24. The Governor has narrowed the scope of this executive order (EO) to New York County (Manhattan). The last EO extension was helpful to the two health systems whose NYSNA nurses have ratified agreements, as...