GNYHA hosted this Office Hours webinar for members participating in its Antibiotic Use and Resistance (AUR) Collaborative with Libby Dodds Ashley, Pharm D, MHS, FCCP, BCPS, Professor in Medicine, Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network. In this meeting Dr. Dodds Ashley share hurdles to AUR reporting and tips on how to overcome them.

The next session of GNHYA’s Quality Fundamentals: Basics (QF: Basics) course will be held virtually on April 3. The Quality Fundamentals series introduces the principles and tools of quality improvement (QI) and teaches participants how to develop a systematic framework to implement QI projects in their hospitals. The course is designed to increase your hospital’s…

GNYHA will host a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)/Nurse Executive forum on the Clinical Staffing Committee Law, New York State Public Health Law § 2805-t, with a focus on the New York State Department of Health (DOH) “Dear Administrator Letter (DAL) #24-02” sent on March 26. Participants are encouraged to provide feedback and concerns about the…

GNYHA hosted a webinar for the Safety Culture Survey Initiative (SCSI) on April 4 for hospitals participating in the Spring 2024 SCSI. The webinar included a demonstration of the response dashboard and covered topics such as tracking survey responses and utilizing the response dashboard effectively.

GNYHA anticipates that New York State will apply for the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center’s (CMMI) total cost of care and hospital global budget initiative—called the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model—for the downstate region. We are pleased that staff from CMMI and the New York…

This webinar, hosted by GNYHA and the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) with the New York State Department of Health (DOH), highlighted the new hepatitis C screening and testing requirements that take effect May 3, 2024. The 2023-24 State fiscal year (SFY) budget amended and expanded existing hepatitis C screening and testing laws…

On April 17, GNYHA will host a forum on embedding equity into the safety event analysis process to build a more equitable, nonpunitive organizational safety culture. The session will review consideration of bias and inequities in the event analysis process (reporting, investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning) as a strategic imperative to achieve…

GNYHA will host a virtual Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council (EPCC) meeting on April 18, which will include a presentation from NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull (NYC H+H/Woodhull) and NYC Emergency Management on the successful evacuation of the hospital after an extreme rainfall event in September 2023.  

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has mandated new hospital price transparency requirements for 2024. Providers must use one of the CMS templates encoded with current and new data elements by July 1, 2024, to be compliant. GNYHA will convene a workgroup on April 25 for members to discuss their progress meeting these…

GNYHA will host its next Finance & Reimbursement Committee meeting on April 26 at 10:00 a.m. Gene Nickerson from National Government Services will discuss implementation of the recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services transmittal addressing cost report settlements stemming from the Allina Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) Supreme Court decision, as well as any…

GNYHA, in collaboration with the Healthcare Association of New York State, will host a webinar on April 30 to provide updates from The Joint Commission. Mark A. Crafton, MPA, MT(ASCP), Executive Director, Strategic Alliances, Mission Development and Organization Engagement, at The Joint Commission will cover the following: Top-cited standards and aligning them with Conditions of…