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Hospital infection control, quality, and patient safety staff are invited to join the How Transforming Culture and Implementing High-Level Disinfection Practices Can Lead to High Reliability webinar hosted by Premier and featuring Nexera, on June 6. The program will highlight processes for cultural change, compliance improvement, high-level disinfection, and sterilization as areas where foundational changes…

Justice Silver is Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for the New York City Courts and is responsible for day-to-day court operations. He is also a presiding justice in the Supreme Court, New York County, where he hears medical malpractice cases. This will be an opportunity for members to speak directly with Justice Silver about the functioning…

The Revenue Cycle Committee meeting will discuss current state and federal issues affecting member facilities.

GNYHA will continue its Social Determinants of Health Learning Series with an event on addressing the social needs of pediatric patients and their families. Social factors such as stable housing, economic stability, and food access can impact children’s overall health and development, and potentially affect lifetime physical and mental health. The event will detail initiatives…

This is a workgroup composed of legal, compliance, risk, pharmacy, and clinical staff from member hospitals, who meet to discuss issues with the NYS Medical Marijuana program, specifically as it relates to inpatient use. The main focus of this meeting will be to discuss the Department of Health’s recent guidance on self-administration regulations and share…

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GNYHA and the Healthcare Association of New York State will host a web conference to launch the 2015 Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Cap audit. The New York State Department of Health (DOH) and audit firm KPMG will discuss and review the audit process, timeline, changes to the tool, and other logistics. Please register online by…

GNYHA and LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group, will kick off the Unbefriended Patients Workgroup, which has grown out of two previous GNYHA meetings on caring for unbefriended patients. “Unbefriended” patients are those who lack decision-making capacity and do not have family or other community contacts to make health care decisions…

GNYHA’s June Health Information Technology (HIT) Forum will discuss GNYHA’s comments on the changes to the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, as proposed in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule. Other State and Federal updates will also be discussed. Members are encouraged to submit topics for the agenda…

This Office Hours webinar is part of the ongoing support for the upcoming Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Self-Assessment® offering through GNYHA. During the webinar GNYHA and ISMP staff will: Check in with hospitals to determine how well the initial planning and information gathering for the assessment is going Provide insights and technical assistance…

GNYHA will host a community of practice meeting for health care systems engineers. Systems engineering is an emerging health care practice for optimizing complex processes and systems to improve quality and productivity. Many hospitals invest in this unique, valuable discipline to achieve operational and clinical excellence. A community of practice is a forum for systems…