GNYHA hosted an “Office Hours” meeting of the Community Affairs Forum via Zoom on September 7.  The session was designed for members to ask GNYHA staff questions about completing NYS Community Service Plans and community health needs assessments for the IRS. GNYHA staff opened the session with reviews of 1) Federal and NYS requirements and…

On September 13, GNYHA will host a webinar on the burden of diagnosis and treatment for malaria, emphasizing treatment of severe malaria in New York City. With the upcoming closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) access program for intravenous (IV) artesunate, GNYHA will lead a discussion on creating a regional approach…

GNYHA hosted a Community Affairs Forum via Zoom on September 16. The agenda included community health needs assessment (CHNA) and NYS Community Service Plan (CSP) resources, and hospital health equity policy and operations issues and a report on a series of meetings GNYHA staff conducted with NYS Department of Health (DOH) staff on health equity…

GNYHA’s Wellbeing Fundamentals Learning Series will continue on September 20 with a webinar on designing multifaceted interventions. The webinar will feature the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Jonathan Ripp, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Well-Being and Resilience and Chief Wellness Officer, and Lauren Peccoralo, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Well-Being and Development….

On September 20, 2022, GNYHA will host a briefing on the impact of the Appellate Division, Second Department’s decision in Siegel v. Snyder relating to the qualified privilege against disclosure of certain quality-assurance (QA) review information. The central holding of Siegel is that the party asserting the qualified privilege against disclosure of QA information has…

On September 22, GNYHA will host a meeting of its Legal Affairs Committee and Compliance Workgroup. This meeting brings together all levels of staff for a quarterly overview of developments that are pertinent to the Legal and Compliance function. The tentative agenda includes the following topics: Advocacy on the New York State wrongful death legislation…

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic stressing the health care workforce in unimaginable ways, systems, strategies, and approaches that acknowledge what staff are experiencing and offer acute and ongoing supports are more critical than ever before. Consequently, GNYHA is excited to launch the Wellbeing Leaders Lecture Series, a set of presentations to be offered throughout 2022. This…

Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council Presentation Andrew Dahl, Vice President, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Greater New York Hospital Association Next Gen MCI Preparedness: Leveraging Technology and Maximizing Value Matthew Scott, Associate Director, NYU Langone Health Pandemic Response Institute Overview Mitch Stripling, Director, Pandemic Response Institute

On September 29, GNYHA will host a webinar to share best practices to operationalize lifestyle medicine (LM) and integrate LM into outpatient and primary care. LM uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions such as culinary medicine, exercise, and addressing sleep disorders and stress as the primary modality to treat chronic conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes…