The US Senate Finance Committee has released a bipartisan discussion draft of provisions to expand and support the mental health and substance use-related workforce. The discussion draft proposes adding 400 Medicare-supported graduate medical education (GME) positions to psychiatry residency programs.  GNYHA has long advocated for strengthening Federal support for GME, and we were extremely pleased...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will change platforms for reporting COVID-19 data from TeleTracking to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) in mid-December. Separately, the reporting of therapeutic data, including Casirivimab/Imdevimab, Bamlanivimab/Etesevimab, and Sotrovimab, will be moved from TeleTracking to the Healthcare Partner Ordering...

The Afya Foundation, our humanitarian logistics partner, is responding to the devastation caused by Hurricane Fiona by delivering critically needed medical/humanitarian supplies and financial assistance to community health care sites in affected areas, including Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Afya has engaged its long-term contacts on the ground, assessed needs, and is poised to...

In collaboration, with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, GNYHA is sharing a daily syndromic surveillance report that compares median visits for COVID-19-like illness for the most recent three-day period against the same type of visits for the previous two-week period. The report includes data at the City, borough, and facility...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released two Private Industry Notification (PIN) advisories in response to a recent uptick in cybercriminals targeting health care payment processors and an observed increase in vulnerabilities in unpatched medical devices. Summaries of the PINs are below. Hospitals are encouraged to carefully review the advisories in detail. Cybercriminals...

June 1 marks the beginning of the North Atlantic hurricane season, with the highest probability for storms in the New York region falling between early August and late November. While the Atlantic basin has been calm, predictions for a very active storm season continue, and GNYHA urges members to review emergency plans for coastal storms,...

The Clinical Quality Fellowship Program (CQFP) is a 15-month program sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) and the United Hospital Fund (UHF) to develop and nurture the next generation of clinical quality leaders in the New York metropolitan region. The 2023-24 application is available here: https://gnyha.wufoo.com/forms/sfrvvdb0mf9x93/ Receipt deadline for all materials is Friday, November 4,...