GNYHA’s next continuing care membership meeting will take place on September 7. GNYHA staff will provide updates on Federal and State policy issues, including Federal payment updates, discussions with the New York State Department of Health as the State prepares for the upcoming budget season, and other State and Federal issues. The meeting will be…

GNYHA’s Clinical, Quality, and Regulatory Forum will provide updates on local, State, and Federal regulatory matters, and GNYHA quality resources. The preliminary agenda includes: Relevant highlights of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services inpatient prospective payment system final rule and outpatient prospective payment system proposed rule Joint Commission updates New York State regulatory and…

In Part One, Stacy Potts, MD, Senior Associate Dean, GME and Clinical Affairs, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Gina Basello, DO, Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, will review the fundamentals of curriculum development, including design requirements and standards set forth by medical education stakeholders like the Accreditation Council…

This is the September Office Hours webinar GNYHA hosted for members participating in its Antibiotic Use and Resistance (AUR) Collaborative. Erin DuPree, MD, Senior Vice President and Physician Executive, Quality and Clinical Initiatives, GNYHA, updated participants on the most recent news and upcoming events of the AUR Collaborative.

On September 15, GNYHA will host a webinar to be presented by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Climate Change and Health Equity regarding programs and opportunities created by the Federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that can help support health care providers’ greenhouse gas emission reduction and resiliency efforts. The…

GNYHA hosted a Community Affairs Representatives Forum on Friday, September 22nd. The agenda included updates on community benefit reporting, NYS’ Prevention Agenda and Community Service Plan submissions, and CON Health Equity Impact Assessments.

GNYHA’s Hospital Language Assistance Coordinator (LAC) Forum convenes hospital staff who are designated by hospital administration to lead the implementation of hospital language assistance programs to assist limited English proficient patients. The agenda included: Federal and New York State language assistance/effective communications policy updates Briefing on New York State’s certificate of need Health Equity Impact…

GNYHA will host an Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council (EPCC) meeting on September 27, which will feature a presentation on a recent Marburg virus disease full-scale exercise. The EPCC meeting will feature a presentation from the NYC Health + Hospitals System-Wide Special Pathogen Program to help frontline hospitals identify and isolate patients who have a suspected…

GNYHA will hold a briefing on the availability of GNYHA technical assistance to support the enhancement of hospital community benefit reporting on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 Schedule H (Schedule H). The briefing will highlight GNYHA’s analysis of member community benefit reporting and the availability of one-on-one technical assistance meetings with GNYHA and hospital…