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Sep. 28, 2023
Register for Substance Use Disorders Management Boot Camp
This training aims to enhance confidence and competencies related to the management of substance use disorders in general medical settings.
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Sep. 21, 2023
WHA Expresses Concerns with WI Congressional Delegation Over Site-Neutral Proposals in House and Sen
WHA continues to raise alarm with federal lawmakers over site-neutral payment policies that have recently been advanced in the U.S. House and Senate.
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Sep. 21, 2023
WHA Workforce Forum Focuses on Partnering to Grow Faster
WHA members from across Wisconsin gathered in Madison on Sept. 13 for WHA’s Health Care Workforce Forum. Key partners joined health care leaders to focus on strategies to urgently grow the hospital and health system workforce in numbers and capabilities.
Workforce - AdvocacyArticle
Sep. 21, 2023
Unique Leadership Training Experience - Launching of the 2024 Health Care Leadership Academy
Health care continues to operate in a state of constant change. With significant future changes on the horizon, the continued need to build resilient and capable health care leaders with the skills to successfully navigate the complexities and opportunities of the future of health care is vital.
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Sep. 21, 2023
GUEST COLUMN: 2023 Commercial Property Insurance Market Report: Mid-Year Update
We’re past the halfway mark of 2023, and it’s been a year unlike any other for the commercial property insurance market. As the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) stated in their Market Report, “Property as a whole experienced the quickest hardening market anyone can remember in a lifetime.”
Community BenefitsArticle
Sep. 21, 2023
Fast Facts from the WHA Information Center: September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
September is known as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to educate and bring attention to the most common non-skin cancer in the United States. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death in men after lung cancer.
Information TechnologyArticle
Sep. 14, 2023
Four Democrats Circulate Legislation Creating New Regulations for Hospital Nurse Staffing
Led by Sen. Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee) and Rep. Francesca Hong (D-Madison), four Democratic lawmakers circulated a proposal that would limit the ability for hospitals to safely staff patient beds and, as experienced in other states, require hospitals to close services if state-mandated nurse staffing ratios cannot be sustained even if a hospital is capable of caring for patients.
Licensure & Regulatory ReformArticle
Sep. 14, 2023
WHA Supports Meaningful Price Transparency in Outpatient Comment Letter to CMS
WHA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure its proposed changes to hospital price transparency requirements focus on providing truly meaningful information for consumers as opposed to placating third party organizations that have no real interest in helping consumers in its 2024 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) comment letter.
Price TransparencyArticle
Sep. 14, 2023
WHA Urges CMS to Not Punish Hospitals for its Own Mistake in Underpaying 340B Hospitals
On Sept. 8, WHA commented on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS's) proposed remedy to repay hospitals for its illegal actions to decrease payments to 340B hospitals beginning in its CY 2018 outpatient payment rule.
MedicareArticle
Sep. 14, 2023
Wisconsin Hospitals State PAC and Conduit Fundraising Reaches 80% of Goal
The Wisconsin Hospitals State PAC and Conduit annual fundraising campaign has reached a total of $278,342 raised to date from 187 contributors. That is 80% of its goal of raising $350,000 in 2023. Individual contributions range from $25 - $10,000, and 25 individuals are first-time contributors.
