The Safety and Security Committee provides a forum for safety and security issues affecting health care organizations; helps member hospital representatives identify trends and challenges affecting patients, visitors, employees, physicians and property; helps organizations meet regulatory requirements with best practices; and supports the development of educational content on security issues.
Participants: Directors of patient care, safety and security, risk management, facilities
The Behavioral Health Services Committee of Los Angeles identifies and addresses regulatory, public policy and reimbursement issues related to behavioral services providers’ ability to render quality care in a dynamic environment. They look for input from outside parties and report recommended actions through the Constituent Services Representative on the HASC Board.
HASC LA Office, Board Room
515 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1300
Los Angeles, CA 90071
The Los Angeles Emergency Health Services Committee acts as a liaison with local EMS and DMH agencies and CHA; addresses issues related to patient access to emergency and trauma services; and recommends policies that assure development of effective, efficient EMS delivery systems throughout Los Angeles County.
HASC LA Office, Board Room
515 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1300
Los Angeles, CA 90071
As a result of the rapid changes in National Labor Relations Board rulings and procedures, it is critical that HR and labor relations professionals understand labor laws–and how unionization could impact their organization and employees.
LEAD Academy is an intensive six-day, 12-module training experience using innovative tools and experiential learning to empower recently hired, newly appointed or previously untrained health care leaders to better understand and use their strengths. Designed for health care supervisors and managers, LEAD is built on the underlying principle that effective leadership requires productive relationships to support excellence in patient care, sustainable business objectives and a safe patient environment.
Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare
255 East Bonita Ave
Pomona, CA 91767
Stay on target with The Joint Commission competency requirements for meeting patients’ needs.
This intensive one-day workshop, presented by Hospital Association of Southern California provides in-depth explanations of The Joint Commission competency assessment standards, detailed examples of compliance, and opportunities for managers to develop and redesign the content of their department competency tools.
Moseley-Salvatori Conference Center
Good Samaritan Hospital
Magnolia Room
637 S. Lucas St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
To confront a public health issue of epidemic proportions, it takes a public policy effort of similar magnitude. At least that’s what we can infer from a bipartisan effort to address the nation’s opioid crisis. After weeks of negotiating to reconcile House and Senate bills, legislative leaders from both chambers released a 660-page bill containing public health and law enforcement measures aimed at decelerating the growth rate of opioid-related overdose deaths and at preventing addiction.
Substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) are often part of conversations, but not as frequently considered for their place in the health care system. Still clouded by stigma, substance use disorders are slowly beginning to be more broadly understood as chronic illnesses — and the health care system is (also slowly) beginning to identify, treat, and pay for them that way.
UC San Diego scientist who revived interest in using viruses to fight infection and a Salk Institute researcher who is pushing to grow human organs for transplantation have been named among the 50 most influential figures in health care by Time.
This month, an alarming report from the U.N. announced that there may be as little as 12 years to curb climate change and reach the target set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. That could have serious implications for healthcare systems increasingly coming face-to-face with the realities of how climate change can directly and indirectly affect patients’ well-being.
Every year, pharmaceutical companies contribute millions of dollars to U.S. senators and representatives as part of a multipronged effort to influence health care lawmaking and spending priorities.
A rare condition causing weakness in the arms or legs — and sometimes paralysis — has been confirmed in 62 children so far this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. One child has died of the condition, called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.
Jeffrey Klausner has seen the damage congenital syphilis can do to newborns, and it makes him a little sick. “It’s one of the horrible outcomes,” said Klausner, an infectious disease professor at UCLA’s medical school. “You have devastation of the newborn.”
Meetings
Security and Safety Committee Meeting
The Safety and Security Committee provides a forum for safety and security issues affecting health care organizations; helps member hospital representatives identify trends and challenges affecting patients, visitors, employees, physicians and property; helps organizations meet regulatory requirements with best practices; and supports the development of educational content on security issues.
Participants: Directors of patient care, safety and security, risk management, facilities
Behavioral Health Services Committee – Los Angeles
The Behavioral Health Services Committee of Los Angeles identifies and addresses regulatory, public policy and reimbursement issues related to behavioral services providers’ ability to render quality care in a dynamic environment. They look for input from outside parties and report recommended actions through the Constituent Services Representative on the HASC Board.
515 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1300
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Emergency Health Services Committee – Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Emergency Health Services Committee acts as a liaison with local EMS and DMH agencies and CHA; addresses issues related to patient access to emergency and trauma services; and recommends policies that assure development of effective, efficient EMS delivery systems throughout Los Angeles County.
515 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1300
Los Angeles, CA 90071
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