June 14, 2024 News Headlines

Their Emergency Nurse Residency Program helps new graduate nurses and nurses new to the emergency department develop the skills necessary to practice independently and safely in the ED. Developed by nursing leadership, the program is just one way they’re addressing the ongoing nursing shortage. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

This week HANYS submitted comments to CMS on the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule for federal fiscal year 2025.

The following bills of interest passed both houses recently:

• Nursing home closures (A.3703/S.2984)
• Emergency room practitioner drug dispensing (A.5984-B/S.7177-B)
• Maternity patient leaflet on congenital heart defect births (A.7516-A/S.9283)
• Copies of patient information (A.7860/S.7846)
• Remote ultrasound and fetal non-stress coverage (A.8168/S.7690)
• Intravenous contrast media (A.8247-C/S.8470-A)
• Establishing patient disability status (A.8560-A/S.8666-A)
• Physician assistant standards (A.8378-A/S.9038-A)
• Certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks and work standards for cytotechnologists (A.9235-A/S.8966-A)
• Hospital-home care-physician collaboration program (A.9204/S.9049)
• Creative art therapist billing (A.9018/S.8715)
• Hospital closures (A.1633-B/S.8843-A)
• School-based health center carve out (A.8862/S.7840)

Please see our summary chart for a complete list of bills of interest that passed both houses during the 2024 legislative session.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a strategic gap between hospitals and their competitors. Now healthcare leaders are questioning whether their operating model that worked well in the past will continue to serve them in the future. Read HTNYS’ June edition of Trends to learn leading practice strategies from a case study and recommendations to reinvent your operating model and improve performance.

AHA’s 2025 Circle of Life Award recognizes hospitals and health systems that advance end-of-life and hospice care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective and equitable. Learn more and apply online through July 24.

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