January 28, 2022 News Headlines

With generous support from a nearly $1 million grant of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, HANYS will be deepening and targeting our work in health disparities.

Healthcare Trustees of New York State is pleased to welcome Susan Holliday, trustee at UR Medicine in Rochester, as board chair. See the full list of 2022 board officers and new board members.

Signatories of the HANYS-supported letter urge the administration to investigate reports that nurse staffing agencies are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase profits at the expense of hospitals and their patients. HANYS has been drawing attention at all levels of government to the staffing shortages facing New York’s hospitals and health systems and the unsustainable costs of traveling nurses that are exacerbating this dire situation.

Through a variety of initiatives that improved face-to-face, effective communication among team members, they reduced mean patient length of stay by 1.1 days and median length of stay by nine hours. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

The patient education brochure, titled “Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Your Baby: Get the COVID-19 Vaccine,” is available online in 11 languages to assist providers when counseling patients.

The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board is offering a new series of webinars to provide information on long-haul COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims. Information on the webinars along with new fact sheets and other COVID-19 resources for workers, employers and insurance carriers are available on WCB’s webpage.

Updated Jan. 19, the device shortage list now includes all blood specimen collection tubes (product codes GIM and JKA), in addition to the sodium citrate (light blue top) tubes previously included; access the FDA’s Blood Specimen Collection Tube Shortage FAQ for more information.

HANYS Quality Analysis Suite: New quality measure trends and reference guide tools
Feb. 1

Standing membership call
Feb. 1

Emergency Department Diversion/Inpatient Admissions Collaborative Program for COVID-19 and Beyond
Feb. 3

How COVID-19 spreads
Feb. 3

HANYS government relations update call
Feb. 4

Regional state budget briefings: Day one
Feb. 9

Regional state budget briefings: Day two
Feb. 11

Standing membership call
Feb. 15

Leveraging the emergency department to improve antibiotic use
Feb. 16

HANYS government relations update call
Feb. 18