On October 2, GNYHA will host a meeting at which the New York State Department of Health (DOH) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will review revised guidance in CMS’s State Operations Manual Appendix Q about what constitutes an immediate jeopardy (IJ) situation in a health care organization. This meeting was originally…

On October 3, GNYHA will host a webinar on unit-based approaches to support workplace violence prevention and mitigation in the hospital setting. The webinar will feature: Judith E. Arnetz, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State University, who has studied the topic of workplace violence in…

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On October 7, GNYHA will host a webinar on the final United States Pharmacopeia (USP) <795>, <797>, and <800> Standards and The Joint Commission’s (TJC) updated hospital accreditation program requirements to reduce risks associated with sterile medication compounding and hazardous drug handling. Robert Campbell, PharmD, Director, Clinical Standards Interpretation Hospital/Ambulatory Programs Director, Medication Management, at…

On October 10, GNYHA will hold a Quality Fundamentals Course designed to introduce the principles of quality improvement (QI) and provide a QI foundation for analytic and frontline unit-based staff. The course will be offered to hospital QI teams as part of GNYHA’s commitment to helping members to continuously enhance their organization’s QI infrastructure. Participants…

The next Community Affairs Committee Meeting will be held on October 11. You can attend in person or via webinar. This event will discuss the 2020 Census and the GNYHA/ABNY Health Care Counts campaign.

GNYHA will continue its Social Determinants of Health Learning Series with a webinar on addressing health and social needs of individuals who are justice-involved. Individuals who are currently or formerly involved in the criminal justice system tend to have higher rates of mortality, are more likely to suffer from chronic medical conditions and behavioral health…

GNYHA will host another Community of Practice meeting on safe patient handling (SPH) and worker safety. GNYHA’s SPH Community of Practice provides a forum for hospitals to share and learn about successful SPH projects and programs, innovations and best practices. Representatives from the Hospital for Special Surgery and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will discuss…

In partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), GNYHA will host a daylong symposium on Managing Cybersecurity Risks as Part of an Enterprise Risk Strategy. Representatives from medical device manufacturers will join a dialogue on how device makers and hospitals can jointly pursue the shared goal of addressing cybersecurity threats. GNYHA…

GNYHA will host a webinar on October 30 to highlight NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services programs, which provide medical, behavioral, and substance use services to people in the New York City jail system. This webinar is in addition to the recently announced October 18 webinar highlighting a national program to address the health and…

On October 30, GNYHA will host a briefing on Census 2020 and how hospitals can undertake engagement activities to encourage community members, patients, and hospital staff to participate in the Census. The briefing will feature representatives from the Association for a Better New York (ABNY). GNYHA is partnering with ABNY on an initiative called Health…