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March 12, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on maternal mortality rates indicating an overall decrease from 22.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2022, to 18.6 in 2023. However, thes ...
read moreMarch 04, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)Powered by Amazon Web Services, CorrelateIQ Brings Valuable Insights to Empower Decision Making
The Center for Health Affairs and Endeavor Management announce the formation of a groundbreaking joint venture, En ...
read moreFebruary 27, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs just launched a regional social determinants of health (SDoH) survey to help shape the well-being of Northeast Ohio communities. Through a collaborative effort with community partn ...
read moreFebruary 20, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)A report recently released by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) finds that a proposal currently under consideration by Congress as part of budget negotiations to cut the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medic ...
read moreFebruary 13, 2025 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs has unveiled its 2025 advocacy agenda — detailing priorities that reflect commitment to ensuring a sustainable, innovative, and equitable healthcare system. By advocating for ...
read moreFebruary 06, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)In support of The Center for Health Affairs’ mission to improve the health and well-being of the community, beginning this year the organization modified its governance structure to bring together two of ...
read moreJanuary 30, 2025 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce that three organizations within their corporate sponsorship program have renewed their commitment through continued sponsorship.
Offering an opportunity for ...
read moreJanuary 16, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)Additional Committees Created to Advance Strategic Organizational Initiatives
The Center for Health Affairs and its subsidiaries announce the creation of four new committees and the addition of new leade ...
read moreJanuary 09, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)The Center is excited to welcome Readiness Rounds — an organization offering hospitals high-reliability and performance improvement platforms to elevate care quality, patient satisfaction, and regulatory ...
read moreJanuary 02, 2025 (Cleveland, OH)As a new year begins to unfold, what might we expect in healthcare? The potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to improve mental healthcare, the impact of climate change on health, and innovative programs a ...
read moreDecember 19, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Weekly Wrap Up this year covered a wide range of topics, from social determinants of health to the maternal and infant health crisis. As we reflect on 2024, here are the year’s top 10 most noteworthy ...
read moreDecember 12, 2024 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs is advocating for several healthcare policies that provide vital services to patients, protections to workers, and funding to hospitals, before the end, on Dec. 20, of the continui ...
read moreDecember 05, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Citing an increase in inflation, labor costs, and claim denials, the 2025 Environmental Scan released this week by the American Hospital Association (AHA) sheds light on the many costs forcing the nation’ ...
read moreNovember 21, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The American Hospital Association (AHA) released its 2025 Health Care Workforce Scan — an in depth look at the current state of healthcare employment, and the emerging challenges amplified by the pandemic ...
read moreNovember 14, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)On Nov. 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the creation of the Health Equity Advisory Committee (HEAC) and solicitation of nominations for members to be appointed to the committ ...
read moreNovember 07, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)On behalf of our more than 30 hospital members caring for patients in 10 Northeast Ohio counties, The Center for Health Affairs calls on Congress to reject proposals that seek to further reduce hospital reimbur ...
read moreOctober 31, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Childhood vaccination rates have been declining in recent years and preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough are on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sheds light on thes ...
read moreOctober 17, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Cleveland State University Wolstein Center was buzzing with excitement this week as 150 Cleveland-area high school students got a unique, immersive glimpse into the world of healthcare at Explore Your Futur ...
read moreOctober 17, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Due to the devasting impact of Hurricane Helene’s flooding in North Carolina, Baxter International’s North Cove IV fluid manufacturing plant — responsible for producing approximately 60% of th ...
read moreOctober 10, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS are proud to announce they have been awarded their sixth Top Workplaces honor from The Cleveland Plain Dealer, fifth consecutive Crain’s Cleveland Business Best Em ...
read moreOctober 03, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Nearly 100 community leaders, healthcare professionals and industry experts with experience in combatting the opioid crisis came together on Sept. 20 at The Center for Health Affairs to learn from one another a ...
read moreAugust 29, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)A summer surge in COVID has been hitting the country, with states in the south and west most impacted, but new vaccines and tests are on the way.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced emerg ...
read moreAugust 15, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new survey findings indicating that 8.2% of Americans did not have health insurance in the first quarter of 2024. This increase from 7.7% in the ...
read moreAugust 08, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Congress is currently on summer recess, but when they return in September, they’ll have a lot to accomplish before the end of the year, including addressing significant issues that affect hospitals and th ...
read moreAugust 01, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs has been selected by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response (ASPR) to continue serving as the Regional Hospital Coordinator (RHC) for Northeast Ohio for the n ...
read moreJuly 25, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Reflecting its mission to serve the community and foster a positive, inclusive and dynamic work culture, The Center for Health Affairs is announcing new additions to its senior leadership team and a new role fo ...
read moreJuly 18, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center is thrilled to welcome two new participants in our corporate sponsorship program. Premier and Vertex joined as sponsors during the second quarter of 2024, bringing The Center’s corporate sponso ...
read moreJuly 11, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce a new board chair and vice chair and welcome new directors to its Board. Drawn from hospital and community organizations in the Northeast Ohio region, these ...
read moreJune 27, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Northeast Ohio Healthcare Coalition (HCC) annual conference on June 7 featured an agenda packed with speakers, ranging from local to national organizations, and included awards presented to five Northeast O ...
read moreJune 20, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting an increase in the uninsured rate over the next 10 years, to 8.9% of the U.S. population in 2034, up from 7.2% in 2023, according to a study published recentl ...
read moreJune 13, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Igniting Compassion, the documentary film released last year by The Center for Health Affairs, has been recognized as a 2024 Gold Winner by the Viddy Awards.
Administered by the Association of Marketing and Com ...
read moreMay 30, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)According to an infographic recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 41% of U.S. births were paid for by Medicaid in 2021 and 26% of the 92.1 million Medicaid and Children&rs ...
read moreMay 16, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs welcomed more than 200 people this week to ConnectNEO, our Annual Meeting in Cleveland. Featuring a fireside chat with hospital leaders, panels discussions on social dete ...
read moreMay 09, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) recently released Costs of Caring report finds many hospitals and health systems are currently operating in an environment of financial uncertainty with little to ...
read moreMay 02, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO) recently released its biennial Health Value Dashboard — a tool developed to track Ohio’s progress toward health value, which is a measure of Ohio’s perfo ...
read moreApril 18, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)While eyes were on the skies earlier this month for the solar eclipse that traveled through Northeast Ohio, behind the scenes, numerous organizations, including The Center for Health Affairs, had spent months p ...
read moreApril 11, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)A case study recently published by Amazon Web Services shines a light on the work of The Center for Health Affairs’ Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Innovation Hub, including recent findings on firear ...
read moreMarch 27, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)Northeast Ohio hospital community benefit rose to $2.05 billion in 2022 according to the latest analysis by The Center for Health Affairs. This is a 4.3% increase from the $1.97 billion in community benefit del ...
read moreMarch 21, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently made accelerated payments available to hospitals and providers and issued guidance to those affected by the February cyberattacks on Change Health ...
read moreFebruary 21, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is thrilled to announce it has once again been recognized as an Inclusive Workplace by Best Companies Group, a workplace culture and employee engagement expert, and COLOR Magazine, ...
read moreFebruary 08, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)On Feb. 2, The Center for Health Affairs’ Emergency Preparedness team led a chemical emergency surge tabletop exercise to test area hospitals and other partner agencies in a mock chemical release that wou ...
read moreFebruary 01, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The latest study by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) finds improvements in the emotional health and well-being of staff compared to two years prior but also identifies staff retention as ...
read moreJanuary 25, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs and the Greater Cleveland Career Consortium (GCCC) have joined forces to connect area high school students to career-based learning opportunities in healthcare. Through a health ca ...
read moreJanuary 25, 2024 (Cleveland,OH)The Center for Health Affairs announces new leadership of its member and community programming, naming Tracy Wise as senior vice president of programs and strategy. With a tenure of nearly 14 years with the org ...
read moreJanuary 18, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The 2024 Northeast Ohio hospital Medicare wage index project, led by The Center for Health Affairs, is bringing an estimated $16 million in additional reimbursement this year to the region’s hospitals com ...
read moreJanuary 11, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs and its subsidiaries are pleased to announce term extensions for directors and the welcoming of new leaders to its boards, including the appointments of a new chair and vice chair. ...
read moreJanuary 04, 2024 (Cleveland, OH)The Center is pleased to welcome two new participants in our corporate sponsorship program. Imprivata and AlertGPS joined as sponsors during the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing The Center’s corporate spo ...
read moreDecember 21, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)From opioid crisis news to the creation of the Social Determinants of Health Innovation Hub, the Weekly Wrap Up this year covered an expansive scope of content. Let’s look back on 2023 and reminisce about ...
read moreDecember 14, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs this month welcomed two new members of its member and community programming team. As senior director of engagement and programs, Jodi Mitchell will oversee the organization’s ...
read moreDecember 07, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Healthy Northeast Ohio, the regional population health data source, recently enhanced its offerings through the addition of two new data dashboards: the Healthy Aging Indicators dashboard and High School Youth ...
read moreNovember 16, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Innovation Hub, formed by The Center for Health Affairs and powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the participation of more than 40 Greater Cleveland community orga ...
read moreNovember 09, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The November meeting of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium featured guest speaker Frank Beck, DDS, FAAHD, MAGD, FICOI, DSCDA, who spoke about the impact on oral health resulting from vital therapy ut ...
read moreOctober 26, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)National Take Back Day is Saturday, Oct. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Northeast Ohio health systems are leading efforts by hosting collection sites across the region. An initiative of the U.S. Drug Enforcement ...
read moreOctober 05, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently published a study in the monthly journal Addiction that finds the proportion of U.S. overdose deat ...
read moreSeptember 14, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Easing regulations, providing practical actionable information, and creating human connections are just a few of the opportunities to enhance clinician education related to treating opioid and substance use dis ...
read moreSeptember 07, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)On Aug. 31, International Overdose Awareness Day, Cleveland’s Public Square was host to the inaugural Waves of Awareness event, which featured day-long activities to unite communities across Northeast Ohi ...
read moreAugust 31, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)As new COVID-19 variants spread, health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced vaccine recommendations and the upcoming arrival ...
read moreAugust 24, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)As we look toward the end of summer and the return to Washington in early September by members of Congress, we will begin one of the busiest times of the year for lawmakers on the Hill. At the top of their list ...
read moreAugust 24, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)At its August meeting, the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium welcomed representatives from The MetroHealth System to share insights on the intersection between human trafficking and substance use disord ...
read moreAugust 17, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)A community health needs assessment (CHNA) recently released by Bluestone Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, found some improvements in mental health indicators among the youth population as well as s ...
read moreAugust 17, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Last month, Amy Terry, MSC, director of member programming for The Center for Health Affairs, presented one of the continuing education sessions, “Cross Sector Partnerships to Advance Health Equity” ...
read moreAugust 10, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The month of June was packed with emergency preparedness work, as The Center held its annual conference for the Northeast Ohio Healthcare Coalition and participated in the two-day full-scale National Disaster M ...
read moreJuly 26, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Bluestone Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, a 12-bed hospital dedicated to children’s acute mental health needs, joins the membership.
The Center for Health Affairs — the leading advocat ...
read moreJuly 20, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Released today on The Center for Health Affairs’ YouTube channel, the documentary Igniting Compassion offers a personal look into the lives of Northeast Ohio residents impacted by the opioid crisis and po ...
read moreJuly 13, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is thrilled to welcome four new participants in our corporate sponsorship program. Offering an opportunity for organizations in Northeast Ohio and beyond to partner with The Center ...
read moreJuly 06, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs has named Jill Dietrich Mellon, JD, and Mark Malloy, MBA, as vice chairs of its Board of Directors.
Mellon, executive director & CEO for Veterans Affairs Northeast Ohio Health ...
read moreJune 22, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The 340B Drug Pricing Program is critical to many hospitals and patients across the country and has historically enjoyed bipartisan support, yet it continues to encounter hurdles by regulators and pharmaceutica ...
read moreJune 15, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs and its subsidiary, CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO), advocated for hospitals at the congressional level this month as lawmakers, including some from Ohio, tackled issues related to h ...
read moreJune 08, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Congress is considering several legislative proposals that would impose additional site-neutral payment reductions to services provided in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). Under these policies, the paym ...
read moreMay 25, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs this week urged the Northeast Ohio members of the U.S. House of Representatives to sign on to a letter circulating on the Hill asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servic ...
read moreMay 18, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The board of directors of the HealthComp Foundation approved grants totaling $229,942 at its May 2023 meeting:
Black Lives Matter Cleveland Inc. -- $30,000 for community conversations that focus on t ...
read moreMay 18, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs announces a new partnership with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Northern Ohio Chapter aimed at bringing new opportunities to the community and enhancing value ...
read moreMay 11, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs welcomed more than 170 people this week to our Annual Meeting in Cleveland. Featuring a fireside chat with hospital leaders, panel discussions on telehealth and workforce, and pres ...
read moreMay 11, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Yesterday’s official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) marks a return to many pre-pandemic practices and policies, though some remain or will be extended as a result of the 2022 the Consol ...
read moreMay 04, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced this week it will extend current telehealth flexibilities around prescribing controlled substances while it works to “find a way forward to give Americans ...
read moreApril 27, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)A study by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing published this month sheds light on the significant toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s nursing workforce. Approximately 100,000 regist ...
read moreApril 20, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Facing a Sept. 30 expiration date, this year Congress must reauthorize funding for the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), legislation last enacted in 2019 that funds regional emergency preparedn ...
read moreApril 13, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Northeast Ohio hospital community benefit grew to $1.97 billion in 2021 according to the latest analysis by The Center for Health Affairs. This is a 5.2% increase from 2020, when $1.87 billion in community bene ...
read moreApril 06, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The latest report from Kaufman Hall shows hospital operating margins in 2023 have improved somewhat from last year but are still a long way from pre-pandemic levels. Overall, expenses are higher this year compa ...
read moreMarch 29, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to support the mission of The City Club of Cleveland and its commitment to encouraging discourse and providing impactful programming by signing on as a forum sponsor in ...
read moreMarch 29, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center is excited to welcome two new partners as participants in its corporate sponsorship program. USI and ALTIUS have joined as sponsors during the first quarter of this year, bringing The Center’s ...
read moreMarch 23, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)This month, Healthy Northeast Ohio released its latest Data Dispatch, which highlights recent website updates, provides resources for grant application support, and features new regional community health report ...
read moreMarch 23, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Melissa Kline to Lead The Center for Health Affairs Board of Directors as Chair
The Center for Health Affairs called upon leaders from Northeast Ohio hospitals and community organizations to step into new roles ...
read moreMarch 16, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine unveiled a new data dashboard to track and report overdose and substance use measures throughout the entire state.
Designed to assist local organizations and communities to ...
read moreMarch 16, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The SDoH Innovation Hub Advisory Council Holds Inaugural Meeting, Bringing Together Cross-Sector Participants in Transformational Work
Cleveland, Ohio – More than 40 community leaders from Northeast Ohio, ...
read moreMarch 09, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)On Feb. 24, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instructed federal independent dispute resolution (IDR) entities to resume processing surprise billing payment determinations beginning on Feb. 2 ...
read moreMarch 02, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)At its most recent quarterly meeting in February, the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium welcomed representatives from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Care Alliance Health Center and St. Vince ...
read moreFebruary 23, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center & AWS, a world leading cloud computing offering, will work with community leaders to address the leading factors impacting the health of local residents.
What began quietly two years ago cu ...
read moreFebruary 16, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)IPRO QIN-QIO, a Quality Innovation Network – Quality Improvement Organization, recently released its Nursing Home Naloxone Toolkit to assist nursing homes with the creation of policies and procedures for ...
read moreFebruary 16, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center, its membership, and in turn the greater community, will benefit from the dedication and engagement of these individuals.
The Center for Health Affairs and its affiliates welcome new leaders t ...
read moreFebruary 09, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Hospitals, public health agencies and other partner organizations in the community announce the release of the collaborative 2022 Cuyahoga County Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). The assessment gives C ...
read moreFebruary 08, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)On Tuesday evening, we as a nation had the opportunity to view President Joe Biden’s address to Congress and the country, in which he spoke about accomplishments and set an agenda for the remainder of the ...
read moreJanuary 31, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Select Medical, a post-acute care provider, joins the membership.
The Center for Health Affairs — the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals for more than 100 years — is expanding its member ...
read moreJanuary 26, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)With the passage of the end-of-year omnibus legislation, Congress formally ended the DATA-Waiver program, commonly known as the X-waiver program. Federal officials, lawmakers and public health experts believe t ...
read moreJanuary 23, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The Center is proud to announce it has been recognized as an Inclusive Workplace by Best Companies Group, a workplace culture and employee engagement expert, and COLOR Magazine, a leader in corporate inclusivit ...
read moreJanuary 19, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)Last month, Healthy Northeast Ohio released its latest Data Dispatch, which highlights recent webinars, website updates and helpful resources. Uncover the latest on Healthy NEO — including a loo ...
read moreJanuary 12, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)On Jan. 11, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) for another 90 days, extending it to mid-April. This decision allows for the cont ...
read moreJanuary 05, 2023 (Cleveland, OH)The American Hospital Association (AHA) this week published a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal as well as an advertorial in The New York Times advocating for hospitals, which are continuing to fa ...
read moreDecember 22, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)From policy updates to pandemic news to industry developments, the Weekly Wrap Up this year covered a broad spectrum of content. What were our five most popular stories? Let’s take a walk down memory lane ...
read moreDecember 15, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) this week proposed updating opioid treatment program (OTP) standards and admission criteria to expand access to treatment.
The propose ...
read moreDecember 06, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The latest report from Kaufman Hall, issued at the end of November, found that hospitals across the U.S. experienced their 10th consecutive month of negative operating margins in October. In the Midwest, hospit ...
read moreDecember 01, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)A federal rule announced this week would improve the exchange of patient records used in the treatment of substance use disorder and at the state level, proposed legislation would legalize fentanyl test strips. ...
read moreNovember 29, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The 2023 Northeast Ohio hospital Medicare wage index project, led by The Center for Health Affairs, will result in approximately $11.3 million more in reimbursement for the region’s hospitals compared to ...
read moreNovember 17, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Healthy NEO recently met for their Regional Convening with the goal of assembling partners across the nine-county Healthy Northeast Ohio region to discuss regional updates and a recently completed Community Hea ...
read moreNovember 10, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last week released the final rule for the 2023 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system, whi ...
read moreNovember 03, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)On Oct. 20, 2022, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released framework outlining the foundational role workplaces play in the health and well-being of workers.
Due in many ways to the C ...
read moreOctober 27, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Believing that patients should be kept out of any billing disputes between providers and commercial health insurance companies and that no patient should receive a surprise medical bill, the American Hospital A ...
read moreOctober 27, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) has released a toolkit to assist with the Medicaid unwinding that will follow the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). The materials are intended to help orga ...
read moreOctober 20, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Shortly following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) most recent extension of the current COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...
read moreOctober 13, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Last month, Healthy Northeast Ohio released its latest Data Dispatch which highlights recent accomplishments, important website updates and helpful resources. Uncover the latest on Healthy NEO — including ...
read moreOctober 06, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to welcome a new group of partners as participants in its corporate sponsorship program. These organizations have joined as sponsors during the third quarter of this yea ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) this month released its strategic plan for FY 2022-2026. This strategic planning process occurs every five years for all National Institutes of Health (NIH) agencies ...
read moreSeptember 22, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)On Sept. 8, The Center for Health Affairs hosted a workforce roundtable on “The Healthcare Workforce of Tomorrow” to discuss the healthcare staff shortage facing hospitals in Northeast Ohio and acro ...
read moreSeptember 14, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a request for information (RFI) seeking public input on a variety of topics, which include access to care, provider experiences, advancing healt ...
read moreSeptember 08, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)This spring, Healthy Northeast Ohio worked with the Early Ages Healthy Stages Coalition to create a customized data dashboard featuring early childhood data. The latest Healthy NEO success story features this i ...
read moreSeptember 08, 2022 At its most recent meeting last month, the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium welcomed Pia Marcus, director of syringe access & program innovation at OnPoint NYC, to discuss the impact of the organiz ...
read moreSeptember 01, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)This week on Aug. 31, the state of Ohio observed Overdose Awareness Day, a time to remember and honor the many lives lost to overdose, as well as to raise awareness of the ways to prevent overdose.
According to ...
read moreSeptember 01, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) unveiled a new dashboard on Aug. 25 to keep the public up to date on the status of monkeypox cases throughout the state.
Available on the ODH website, the Monkeypox Cases Ov ...
read moreAugust 24, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)On Sept. 8, The Center for Health Affairs will host a workforce roundtable to discuss the current healthcare staff shortage facing hospitals in Northeast Ohio and across the entire United States healthcare syst ...
read moreAugust 17, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)As of August 16, there have been more than 12,600 probable or confirmed cases of monkeypox in 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, including more than 100 in Ohio. Recognizing the potential threat posed by the ortho ...
read moreAugust 11, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Effective Sept. 23, a new law in the state of Ohio will require prescribers to issue electronic prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances, with written and oral prescriptions allowed only under certai ...
read moreAugust 11, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to welcome the first participants in our corporate sponsorship program. Launched earlier this year, the program offers an opportunity for organizations in Northeast Ohio ...
read moreAugust 04, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Two new reports issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on long COVID and an update from a White House official on treatments are among this week’s pandemic developments.
HHS Repo ...
read moreJuly 28, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Working with Pegasus Knowledge Solutions, Inc., The Center for Health Affairs is connecting hospitals with an advanced tool designed to strengthen and support nurse retention.
The Center for Health Affairs, the ...
read moreJuly 28, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs this week urged members of the Northeast Ohio delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives to sign on to a letter circulating on the Hill aimed at improving Medicare reimburseme ...
read moreJuly 21, 2022 Through this elevated partnership, The Center and DHGE are working together to provide specialized healthcare workforce education and development.
The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for N ...
read moreJuly 13, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Healthy Northeast Ohio is pleased to be recognized by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a Healthy People 2030 Champio ...
read moreJuly 12, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Supply chain specialist CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO), business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, is pleased to announce an expansion of its partnership with Team NEO, a leading Northeast Oh ...
read moreJuly 05, 2022 (Cleveland, OH )As major vaccine manufacturers, including Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, are working on vaccines to better protect against the COVID-19 Omicron variants, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reminded providers of ...
read moreJune 22, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)Supply chain specialist CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO), business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, and the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE), Greater Cleveland’s premier small business e ...
read moreJune 16, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs this week urged the Northeast Ohio delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives to sign on in support of a bill intended to protect healthcare workers from abuse.
H.R. 7961, the ...
read moreJune 06, 2022 The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announces the launch of its Career Center, an online job board for employers and job seekers in the healthcare industry. T ...
read moreJune 02, 2022 The Center for Health Affairs is thrilled to announce the appointment of Fredy Robles as vice chair of its Community Health Affairs Board of Directors. Comprised of hospital, academic and community leaders in N ...
read moreMay 26, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)In a matter of days, our nation has experienced a pair of tragedies in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, the latest in a series of events happening with devastating frequency in our country.
We at The Cente ...
read moreMay 19, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs has selected a project aimed at improving care for patients with asthma as the recipient of its Collaboration to Innovation grant. This unique offering, in partnership with IPC Glo ...
read moreMay 19, 2022 The May issue of The Center for Health Affairs’ Funding Opportunity Newsletter has been published. It includes federal, state and foundation grants in healthcare, behavioral and mental health, workforce d ...
read moreMay 18, 2022 Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium Launches Innovative Prescriber Education Tool
The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium is taking its educational content to a new, innovative platform with the lau ...
read moreMay 05, 2022 (Cleveland, OH)One year ago this week, the Cuyahoga County Diversion Center provided services to its first client. In the days since, it has received more than 530 calls and completed more than 260 admissions. A first-of-its ...
read moreApril 28, 2022 The American Hospital Association (AHA) this week released a report detailing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitals, including increases in hospital expenses, patient acuity and average length of sta ...
read moreApril 27, 2022 The April issue of The Center for Health Affairs’ Funding Opportunity Newsletter has been published. It includes federal, state and foundation grants in healthcare, behavioral and mental health, workforce ...
read moreApril 27, 2022 The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium earlier this month submitted comments expressing support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) proposed revisions to guidelines on prescr ...
read moreApril 21, 2022 Cybersecurity authorities in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom this week released a cybersecurity advisory warning of potential cyber threats connected with the Russian go ...
read moreApril 21, 2022 (Cleveland)
Healthy Northeast Ohio (Healthy NEO) welcomes planners, policy-makers and community stakeholders to use its site as a tool for community assessment, strategic planning, identifying best practices for improveme ...
read moreApril 13, 2022 Which counties joined the Healthy Northeast Ohio population health data resource in 2021? What funding level was awarded for regional hospital emergency preparedness work? What was the regional impact of The Ce ...
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A pair of actions this month from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) add up to forthcoming changes for nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. On April 7, CMS announced it will be lifti ...
read moreApril 07, 2022 (Cleveland)Brian Lane, president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare recently spoke with Premier Inc.’s Chief Customer Officer, Andy Brailo, for an episode of Premier’ ...
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Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb shared an inspiring vision for the city’s future at an event hosted by The Center for Health Affairs on March 24.
“Cleveland can lead the next chapter of America&rsqu ...
read moreMarch 31, 2022 (Cleveland)CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO), a business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs and provider of significant savings on products and services used by businesses every day, is pleased to announce it has surp ...
read moreMarch 30, 2022
The Center for Health Affairs’ analysis of Northeast Ohio hospitals’ community benefit filings finds that collectively they delivered $1.873 billion in community benefit in 2020, a $79.5 million in ...
read moreMarch 25, 2022
The HealthComp Foundation recently announced the latest funding awards granted in 2021, including a proactive grant to advance community health improvement and health equity in 2022. A grant of $170,000 has be ...
read moreMarch 25, 2022 The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium recently launched its free new course for prescribing clinicians, Introduction to Pain Management and Opioids, aiming to improve prescribing practices with the help ...
read moreMarch 23, 2022 In January, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals (UH) both made individual investments to the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition, a public-private partnership formed to address and prevent the pernicious issue ...
read moreFebruary 28, 2022 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs today issued the following statement on the military conflict in Ukraine:
“As we begin a new week, our thoughts and prayers are with the Ukrainian people after a weekend ...
read moreJanuary 27, 2022 (Cleveland)
This month, The Center for Health Affairs introduced four new members of its parent Board of Directors, which is comprised of local health leaders in Northeast Ohio.
The Center for Health Affairs is ...
read moreJanuary 25, 2022 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs has announced the appointment of two new members and a board chair to its Community Health Affairs Board of Directors.
The Center for Health Affairs is happy to announce the appoi ...
read moreDecember 22, 2021 (Cleveland, Ohio)
Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online resource for regional population health data, is pleased to announce the addition of Geauga County to its website. The web-based platform’s regional footprint ...
read moreDecember 16, 2021 Happy Anniversary, Healthy Northeast Ohio!
This month we celebrate the second anniversary of Healthy Northeast Ohio! We thank all of our partners for their continued support as ...
read moreDecember 16, 2021 The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium welcomes a new leader effective Jan. 1, 2022, as Joan Papp, MD, FACEP, steps into the role of physician chair. Dr. Papp, director of The MetroHealth System&rsq ...
read moreDecember 15, 2021 The recent uptick in cases of COVID-19 across the state and here in Northeast Ohio led to a flurry of media coverage of the stresses facing hospitals experiencing filled beds and tight workforce supply. As has ...
read moreNovember 04, 2021 The Center for Health Affairs last week reached out to the U.S. House delegation from Northeast Ohio, urging their support on an effort to modify rules on surprise medical billing.
The interim final rule ...
read moreNovember 04, 2021 The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, the multi-member hospital partnership responsible for coordinating regional activities aimed at stemming Northeast Ohio’s opioid epidemic, offers a flexible ...
read moreNovember 03, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )Healthy Northeast Ohio is pleased to announce the addition of Ashland County to its web-based platform. Partners in Ashland County will be able to utilize the platform for community health improvement efforts b ...
read moreNovember 03, 2021 The Center for Health Affairs recently launched its Hospital Highlights webpage to help showcase the latest highlights and headlines involving Northeast Ohio hospitals. The page is updated on a monthly basis to ...
read moreNovember 03, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )Northeast Ohio hospitals will receive an estimated $14.3 million in additional Medicare revenue in federal fiscal year 2022 as a result of The Center for Health Affairs’ Medicare wage index project. Under ...
read moreNovember 03, 2021 This fall, The Center for Health Affairs launched its “Leading Health Innovation” subseries, a collection of brief conversations within its Healthcare Leadership Series that cover the latest innovat ...
read moreOctober 22, 2021 (Cleveland)With the Leadership of this Board, The Center is Living into its Commitment to Make a Meaningful Impact in the Communities it Serves.
The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of e ...
read moreOctober 21, 2021 (Cleveland)Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online resource for regional population health data, is pleased to announce the addition of Ashland County to its website. The web-based platform’s regional footprint now reach ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)
Below is a statement from Brian Lane, president & CEO of The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare, on the recent surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Northeast Ohio:
“The latest wave o ...
read moreSeptember 14, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliates CHAMPS Group Purchasing and The Essentials Group have joined together with Entanglement Inc. to provide The Center and CHAMPS’ membership with adv ...
read moreSeptember 02, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )In January 2022, Ohio hospitals will have two new sets of regulations to follow regarding out-of-network billing and reimbursement: one set at the federal level and the other at the state level.
Federal Rules
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read moreSeptember 02, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)
Jose Arrieta, founder of IT solutions small business Imagineeer and former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) chief information officer and interim chief data officer, joins the HealthComp, In ...
read moreAugust 31, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Healthy Northeast Ohio team hosted its first-ever virtual Regional Convening on Thursday, June 24. The event included opening remarks from The Center for Health Affairs’ own Lisa Anderson, and Terry A ...
read moreAugust 31, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The year ahead will be filled with important training and education opportunities for members of the Northeast Ohio Healthcare Coalition, the broad group of organizations that come together to plan for and coor ...
read moreAugust 27, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, the multi-member hospital partnership responsible for coordinating regional activities aimed at stemming Northeast Ohio’s opioid epidemic, is excited to offe ...
read moreAugust 26, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)
The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliates CHAMPS Group Purchasing and The Essentials Group have joined with Dignity Health Global Education to provide The Center and CHAMPS’ membership wi ...
read moreAugust 12, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership with AsterionDB, an innovative company that provides a zero-trust secure storage and con ...
read moreAugust 03, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)CHAMPS Group Purchasing, along with its parent organization The Center for Health Affairs, has partnered with JobsOhio to bring Ohio manufacturers to the national stage.
Supply chain specialists CHAMPS Group ...
read moreJuly 27, 2021 The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership with ORock Technologies, a high-performance hybrid cloud service provider ...
read moreJuly 23, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)As part of an organization-wide effort to support the overall health of the communities it serves, The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare have signed on in support of the Business Continuity Coalit ...
read moreJuly 22, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)
The Center for Health Affairs is happy to announce Christine Dodd has joined the organization as executive director of member programming. In her role, Dodd will be responsible for growing The Center&rsqu ...
read moreJuly 22, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, announces the launch of the COVID-19 Dynamic HPI, a publicly available web application that allows for the monitoring and analys ...
read moreJuly 09, 2021 The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, and its business affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare, today announced its collaboration with Cleveland-based medical device startup comp ...
read moreJuly 01, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)This week, The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare were awarded their third Cleveland Plain Dealer Top Workplaces honor and second consecutive Crain’s Cleveland Business and Best Companies Gro ...
read moreJune 30, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)Through the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, The Center for Health Affairs in April signed on to join the HEALing Communities Study’s (HCS) Ohio opioid education campaign, a federally funded ini ...
read moreJune 30, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium advanced objectives related to harm reduction and education this spring through several initiatives, including the distribution of supplies donated by Buckeye Healt ...
read moreJune 29, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs was awarded $796,993 in federal funding to support ongoing healthcare emergency preparedness work for the 2021-2022 grant year, which begins July 1. Funding comes through the Hospi ...
read moreJune 29, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online repository that provides hospitals and other key stakeholders with data to support regional and community health improvement activities, this month launched its Vaccine Ambass ...
read moreJune 29, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in June an extension of the deadline by which hospitals and other providers that received COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund money after June 30, 2020 ...
read moreJune 29, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)A collaborative initiative led by Case Western Reserve University and funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has begun the complex work of addressing systemic racism in Cuyahoga County. The ultimate ...
read moreJune 17, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )
Naylor Association Solutions and The Center for Health Affairs announce they have entered into strategic discussions aimed at developing new growth opportunities for both organizations.
Naylor, based in ...
read moreJune 01, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs throughout the month of May joined the online efforts of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Hospital Association’s American Organization for Nursing Leade ...
read moreJune 01, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )
The Center for Health Affairs, the 105-year-old advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership with Association Analytics, a leading provider of business intelligence and analyt ...
read moreMay 21, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs, the 105-year-old organization dedicated to convening and advocating for Northeast Ohio hospitals, along with its affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare, has been selected by Modern Healthcar ...
read moreMay 10, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)Security and compliance are an absolute must, especially as the heightened threat of ransomware and other cyber risks have continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. These hazards, compounded with necessary HI ...
read moreMay 10, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)In late March, The Center for Health Affairs virtually convened – for the second time ever – its recently formed Supply Chain Forum to address topics surrounding manufacturing, sourcing, partnership ...
read moreMay 06, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )The Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) has published the enhanced Ohio hospital franchise fee assessment for state fiscal year 2021, which runs from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021. Of the additional $194 mi ...
read moreMay 06, 2021 (Cleveland, OH )When infection control experts at healthcare facilities in Northeast Ohio were asked about lessons learned from those first whirlwind months of pandemic response, an overwhelming theme that emerged was the need ...
read moreApril 22, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs, through the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, is proud to join 33 other communities across Massachusetts, New York, Kentucky and Ohio in promoting an opioid education cam ...
read moreApril 21, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)Yesterday's guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin brings accountability for the murder of George Floyd and delivers a sense of relief for our community and nation. In this moment, our thoughts are with the famil ...
read moreMarch 31, 2021 The transaction marks a collective decision to optimize CHAMPS Oncology’s registry reach and provide essential data to those who need it most.
The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for No ...
read moreMarch 25, 2021 The Center for Health Affairs lent its voice to efforts this month to protect hospitals from looming Medicare reimbursement cuts. In letters to the Northeast Ohio congressional delegation, The Center requested ...
read moreMarch 25, 2021
Nine Hospital, Health Care Leaders to Join the Boards of The Center for Health Affairs and its Affiliates, HealthComp, Inc. and Community Health Affairs
The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce the ...
read moreMarch 23, 2021 There has been a horrific surge in violence and hate-crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the past year. According to data released by the reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate, there ...
read moreMarch 19, 2021 On Feb. 10, 52 people representing 21 organizations in Northeast Ohio gathered virtually to test their emergency response plans for a mass casualty event resulting in a large number of burn victims. Participant ...
read moreMarch 19, 2021 Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online resource for population health data, has expanded its offerings with several new resources, including COVID-19 vaccination information, a new index related to food insecurity, ...
read moreMarch 18, 2021 The Ohio Department of Medicaid has announced new deadlines for hospitals to submit their state fiscal year 2021 franchise fee assessments. The four originally scheduled payment deadlines have been replaced wit ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 The Cuyahoga County Citizens’ Advisory Council on Equity (CACE) has released its first status report to the community, a preliminary update on the progress and activity of the council since August 2020. T ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 The combination treatment of bamlanivimab and etesevimab received emergency use authorization (EUA) for mild-to-moderate COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
The EUA is indicated ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 Northeast Ohio hospitals provided nearly $1.8 billion in community benefit in 2019, up 10.6% from the prior year, according to The Center for Health Affairs’ recent analysis of hospital Internal Revenue S ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 Tune in Thursday, Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. when The Center for Health Affairs’ own Director of Community Health, Patricia Terstenyak, hosts a panel discussion featuring community partners who are leading their ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 As the state engages in a full-court press to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, Ohio Director of Health Stephanie McCloud is encouraging Ohioans to volunteer to help administer COVID-19 vaccinations in their com ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online resource for regional population health data, announces new partnerships with Lake and Summit counties. These additions expand the reach of Healthy Northeast Ohio to seven cou ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Director Lori Criss joined the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium for its quarterly meeting this month to discuss and answer questions about OhioMH ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 While the current focus of pandemic-response efforts is on vaccine distribution, there are several additional developments pertinent to hospitals.
CMS Surveys
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2021 The Center for Health Affairs has signed on in support of a proposal by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) aimed at helping renters avoid eviction. Called “pay to stay,” the polic ...
read moreFebruary 04, 2021 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio Hospitals, today announced a partnership with HealthDay, the world’s largest health news service and leading creator o ...
read moreJanuary 11, 2021 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs, together with its business affiliates CHAMPS Group Purchasing, CHAMPS Oncology and The Essentials Group, today announced a new organizational alignment plan, including several key ...
read moreDecember 17, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The much-anticipated approval of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a flurry of activity in Ohio and across the country as plans went into action to beg ...
read moreDecember 17, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is hosting a three-part webinar series launching Jan. 27 on hospital community benefit. The purpose of the series is to explain the nuances of community benefit and allow member ho ...
read moreDecember 17, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The holiday season – a time when people traditionally gather together with family and friends – is arriving at a critical time during this pandemic, as COVID-19 cases numbers are at a high. To encou ...
read moreDecember 17, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)On Dec. 8 and 9 the Public Health Institute, along with host partner University Hospitals, held the National Opioid Leadership Summit, a two-day virtual event designed to support learning and collaboration on s ...
read moreDecember 17, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)While 2020 has been a year unlike any other, what remains the same is the flurry of activity that typically takes place in Congress in December as the House and Senate finish their work for the year. This year, ...
read moreNovember 13, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs, the 104-year-old advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a partnership with National Enrollment Services (NES), a leading provider of Government Tax Credit and Volu ...
read moreSeptember 30, 2020 The Center for Health Affairs was awarded $207,076 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support the second year of activities associated with the CDC Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) grant p ...
read moreSeptember 30, 2020 The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce that Patricia Terstenyak, MPH, has been named director of community health.
Terstenyak joined The Center’s staff in April 2019 as community health imp ...
read moreSeptember 30, 2020 While COVID-19 has been a focal point of emergency preparedness and response work over the last six months, it isn’t the only thing keeping The Center and its partners busy. Just this month, hospitals and ...
read moreSeptember 30, 2020 In preparation for this week’s presidential debate in Cleveland, the Case School of Medicine hosted a series of virtual forums featuring leaders in the healthcare field covering pressing issues affecting ...
read moreSeptember 29, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)BrightTALK, the virtual event platform that brings professionals and businesses together to learn and grow, in partnership with The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS, is launching the COVID-19 Leadership Ser ...
read moreSeptember 29, 2020 Northeast Ohio hospitals will receive an estimated $9.63 million in additional Medicare revenue in federal fiscal year 2021 as a result of The Center for Health Affairs’ Medicare wage index project. Under ...
read moreSeptember 29, 2020 Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online resource for population health data across five counties in the region, has been updated to include 21 new health indicators drawn from the 2019 Cuyahoga County Community Heal ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs today announced a new partnership with Cloud 9 Online, a premier digital wellness company. The partnership provides members and clients of The Center, CHAMPS GPO and CHAMPS Oncolog ...
read moreAugust 30, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Brian Lane, president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, contributed to a Cleveland.com op-ed discussing the importance of an accurate complete count of Northeast Ohio in the 2020 Census. Read the full a ...
read moreAugust 11, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium was joined virtually last week by Admiral Brett Giroir at its quarterly membership meeting. Adm. Giroir is assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of ...
read moreAugust 11, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Did you know…?
In 2018, 23.8% of children in Ashtabula County were living in households experiencing food insecurity and 30.5% lived below the federal poverty level, compared to 13.7% and 8.9% in Me ...
read moreAugust 10, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)
The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, including two of its member organizations, had the opportunity to participate in the development of a publication released this summer by the American Hospital As ...
read moreAugust 10, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)
Northeast Ohio will receive $796,993 in Hospital Preparedness Program funding in state fiscal year 2021, according to the notice of award recently issued by the Ohio Department of Health. The funding is the re ...
read moreAugust 06, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO) today announced a new partnership with Procurement Partners, a leading provider of procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions. The collaboration includes development of a new CHAMPS GPO P2P pl ...
read moreJuly 23, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Dear Northeast Ohio,
As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Northeast Ohio we feel it is important to reach out together to stress the seriousness of this public health crisis. While our teams st ...
read moreJune 30, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare, a 104-year-old Northeastern Ohio hospital association dedicated to convening and advocating for its member hospitals (including Ashtabula County Medical Cent ...
read moreJune 11, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs’ new business line, The Essentials Group, has worked to identify and compile a list of trusted companies to help hospitals navigate COVID-19 challenges. In partnership with o ...
read moreJune 11, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Collaboration among hospitals, public health and other community partners has been a key factor in the successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast Ohio. As the state moves to the next phase of man ...
read moreJune 10, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs today announced a new partnership with Salary.com, the leading enterprise resource for compensation data, software, consulting and education. This partnership will support members ...
read moreJune 09, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is committed to taking concrete action steps to eliminate structural racism, a health priority identified by the community and HIP-Cuyahoga, and amplified in the recently released ...
read moreJune 09, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The VA Northeast Healthcare System is not alone in the dramatic increase it saw in the use of telehealth services under COVID-19. Many hospitals experienced the same shift from in-person to telehealth-based car ...
read moreJune 03, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The outrage sparked by the recent killing of George Floyd, a black man, by law enforcement has led to widespread unrest across the nation. His lost life and the promise it held, now joins a long list of unconsc ...
read moreMay 26, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs today announced a new partnership with ecfirst, a regulatory compliance security training provider. This partnership will help Northeast Ohio hospitals navigate increased cybersecu ...
read moreMay 20, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)
Northeast Ohio hospitals provided $1.6 billion in community benefit in 2018, according to an analysis of their most recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filings.
Community benefits are programs and activ ...
read moreMay 18, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Hospitals and health systems nationwide are set to lose $202.6 billion between March 1 and June 30 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the American Hospital Association (AHA).
Hospita ...
read moreMay 07, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)The CARES Act, the coronavirus relief package enacted March 27, included a provision long advocated for by provider groups, including the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium: a modification to a federal r ...
read moreMay 07, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Hospitals may be eligible for reimbursement of some of their costs associated with COVID-19 under the FEMA Public Assistance Program. This program under the Federal Emergency Management Agency is open to govern ...
read moreMay 07, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)Is information about Northeast Ohio population health useful to your work? Would you like access to regional, county and local data and the ability to create custom reports and dashboards? You’re invited ...
read moreMay 05, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)There has been considerable activity at both the state and federal levels regarding relief funding and other reimbursement-related policy changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Following is an overvie ...
read moreMay 01, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)On Monday, April 27, Governor Mike DeWine announced as part of the state’s phased reopening that hospitals, which have suspended non-essential procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic, will be permitted to ...
read moreApril 20, 2020 (Cleveland)Today The Essentials Group, a business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, and Ascend Innovations announced a newly formed business partnership designed for strategic collaboration, innovation and deliv ...
read moreApril 01, 2020 (Cleveland)The federal economic stimulus package that passed Congress and was signed into law last week, dubbed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security or CARES Act, included substantial relief for hospitals. T ...
read moreApril 01, 2020 (Cleveland)The HealthComp Foundation has joined the many organizations, families and individuals who have contributed to the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund. The intent of the Fund is to coordinate the dist ...
read moreApril 01, 2020 (Cleveland)At the request of its membership, The Center for Health Affairs has been helping to coordinate healthcare provider 2020 Census efforts. In collaboration with United Way of Greater Cleveland and representatives ...
read moreApril 01, 2020 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium is excited to announce the launch of a new online healthcare support staff education opportunity designed to provide an increased understanding of opioid use disord ...
read moreMarch 04, 2020 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare announced an exciting $5,000 donation to support The Literacy Cooperative’s program management and expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Librar ...
read moreMarch 03, 2020 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs is working closely with hospitals and public health officials on coronavirus preparedness as the situation continues to evolve rapidly. The Center’s emergency preparedness di ...
read moreMarch 03, 2020 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ Volume Statistics program has welcomed new leadership. Endrit Meta joined the organization in January as director of Volume Statistics. Volume Statistics is The Center for H ...
read moreFebruary 28, 2020 (Cleveland)It has been a busy time for federal policymakers and in recent weeks The Center for Health Affairs has been engaging in hospital advocacy work on behalf of members on two key issues: surprise medical billing an ...
read moreFebruary 10, 2020 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs announced today the official launch of The Essentials Group, a new business line developed by the more than 100-year-old hospital association. The Essentials Group is designed to b ...
read moreJanuary 29, 2020 (Cleveland)The value of community collaboration as experienced through collaborative assessment and improvement planning in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and King County, Washington was highlighted in this AHA Advancing Health po ...
read moreJanuary 28, 2020 (Cleveland)For those not directly involved, the process for assessing a community’s health needs and identifying priorities can appear esoteric. To help illustrate what went on behind the scenes of the 2019 Cuyahoga ...
read moreJanuary 28, 2020 (Cleveland)Hospitals and public health organizations in Northeast Ohio are remaining vigilant as cases of coronavirus are emerging in the U.S. At press time, five cases of the illness have been diagnosed in four states, a ...
read moreJanuary 27, 2020 (Cleveland)Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Pediatric Disaster Care Center of Excellence. As one of only two ...
read moreJanuary 24, 2020 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium welcomes new leadership this month as David Streem, MD, steps into the role of physician chair. Dr. Streem, medical director of alcohol and drug recovery at Clevela ...
read moreJanuary 23, 2020 (Cleveland)In a final rule announced last fall that became effective in late 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented changes to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP), including some ...
read moreDecember 20, 2019 (Cleveland)The HealthComp Foundation announces grants totaling $207,000 are being awarded to eight nonprofit organizations working to advance health equity for Northeast Ohioans.
Organizations and projects selected for fu ...
read moreDecember 17, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs last week asked the Northeast Ohio congressional delegation to refrain from moving forward with the recently announced bicameral surprise billing legislation. On Dec. 8, U.S. Senat ...
read moreDecember 05, 2019 (Cleveland)Cuyahoga County Board of Health and The Center for Health Affairs, in collaboration with regional hospital and public health partners, announce the launch of Healthy Northeast Ohio, a new website designed to pr ...
read moreDecember 02, 2019 (Cleveland)Some disasters are anticipated while others come without warning. At the Statewide Healthcare Preparedness Conference held this fall, Northeast Ohio hospital attendees had the opportunity to learn from healthca ...
read moreNovember 21, 2019 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium announces the launch of an opioid education program designed to support hospital nurses caring for patients with opioid use disorder. The coursework, available thro ...
read moreOctober 22, 2019 (Cleveland)Findings Point to Key Issues of Structural Racism, Social Determinants of Health
The 2019 Cuyahoga County Community Health Needs Assessment, released today by hospitals, public health and other partner organiza ...
read moreOctober 11, 2019 (Cleveland)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a set of proposed rules aimed at modernizing both the Stark law on physician self-referral and anti-kickback statute. Through these proposed ...
read moreSeptember 24, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs submitted comments this week advocating for changes to the calendar year (CY) 2020 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule. The 2020 OPPS rule ...
read moreSeptember 22, 2019 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Sept. 22, a Crain's Source Lunch piece was published featuring The Center for Health Affairs' President & CEO Brian Lane. In the piece, Lane responds to seven questions posed by Crain's Cleveland ...
read moreSeptember 20, 2019 (Cleveland)As part of a trip to Washington, D.C., for the American Hospital Association’s Regional Policy Board meeting, The Center for Health Affairs President and CEO Brian Lane met with the offices of U.S. Senato ...
read moreSeptember 17, 2019 (Cleveland)Kirstin Craciun, director of community outreach, participated on a Sept. 17, 2019 panel at Cleveland Clinic’s first Populations Health Symposium with:
Merle Gordon, director of the Cleveland Departme ...
read moreSeptember 06, 2019 (Cleveland)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded $13.3 million over three years to a collaborative of organizations in the region, led by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health (CCBH) and including the ...
read moreSeptember 05, 2019 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Sept. 5, Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium Director of Education and Initiatives Camille Zalar, MHA, BSN, RN, CARN participated in a discussion with two Opioid Consortium partners ...
read moreSeptember 04, 2019 (Cleveland)Seeking to increase access to the life-saving intervention naloxone, this week the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium is launching its online Naloxone Toolkit. A collection of resources freely available ...
read moreSeptember 04, 2019 (Cleveland) On Sept. 4, Brian Lane, president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, and Lisa Anderson, senior vice president, joined U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in Washington, ...
read moreAugust 30, 2019 (Cleveland)The opioid crisis has stretched the resources of a system that is working to care for a dramatically larger number of patients who are suffering from opioid use disorder. To address this, hospital members of th ...
read moreAugust 26, 2019 (Cleveland)To help inform the final selection of health priorities for the 2019 Cuyahoga County Community Health Needs Assessment, HIP-Cuyahoga held three community meetings on July 31 and August 6. Two meetings were held ...
read moreAugust 19, 2019 (Cleveland)The final rules are out, and Cleveland-area hospitals are expected to benefit from this year’s Medicare wage index project to the tune of $7.7 million.
Based on historical data, this is a conservative est ...
read moreAugust 15, 2019 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium executive committee has approved a set of recommendations aimed at expanding access to MAT, medication-assisted treatment. The recommendations are based on the find ...
read moreJuly 22, 2019 (Cleveland)Once again, eyes across the country were on Cleveland – this time as it hosted the All-Star Game earlier this month – and the region’s hospitals were among the many organizations and public en ...
read moreJuly 15, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs this month welcomed Jenny Oliver as manager of member communications. A senior marketing and communications professional with extensive experience in strategy development, Oliver b ...
read moreJuly 08, 2019 (Cleveland)At the Public Health Institute’s National Leadership Summit, Randy Jernejcic, MD, vice president of clinical integration at University Hospitals and physician chair of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid C ...
read moreJuly 01, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs highlighted key policy priorities during Hill visits with members of the Northeast Ohio congressional delegation in late June. As part of meetings with the offices of Reps. Marcia ...
read moreJune 26, 2019 (Cleveland)
Dr. Heidi Gullett wears a lot of hats. She holds academic credentials in public health and medicine; she is a practicing physician in family and preventive medicine at Neighborhood Family Practice; she teaches ...
read moreJune 25, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ Volume Statistics data program is gearing up for exciting new developments. The program, which has been in existence for many years and operating continuously since 2002, pr ...
read moreJune 20, 2019 (Cleveland)To bolster efforts to gather important information about the health of individuals living in selected Cuyahoga County communities, HIP-Cuyahoga held a community health worker (CHW) training on June 20, 2019. Th ...
read moreJune 17, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs this month asked members of Congress representing Northeast Ohio to support legislation intended to restore funding to certain off-campus hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). H ...
read moreJune 07, 2019 (Cleveland)The Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP), the initiative through which the federal government funds regional emergency preparedness work by health systems across the country, was reauthorized for continued fundi ...
read moreJune 07, 2019 (Cleveland)On Friday, June 7, 2019, The Center for Health Affairs' Senior Vice President Lisa Anderson was interviewed for an ideastream® piece on the proposed "Medical Consumer Protection Act" which would give Ohio e ...
read moreJune 06, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs congratulates its board director, Susan Fuehrer, on being named the new president of social determinants of health and health equity at MetroHealth, one of The Center's Northeast O ...
read moreJune 01, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs congratulates its former board director, Cheryl O'Malley, DNP, MSN, BSN, BA, NEA-BC, on being named the new chief transformation officer / vice president of population health at So ...
read moreMay 31, 2019 (Cleveland)A substantial collaborative effort is underway to enact a two-year delay of the funding cuts set to kick in this fall under the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) program. In early May, The Center f ...
read moreMay 29, 2019 (Cleveland)On May 29, The Center for Health Affairs hosted U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams at a meeting of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium. Dr. Adams, who had a full itinerary during his Cleveland visi ...
read moreMay 27, 2019 (Cleveland)To help inform the 2019 Cuyahoga County Community Health Needs Assessment, a social service sector focus group was held on May 24, 2019. Led by a MetroHealth facilitator, this focus group brought together leade ...
read moreMay 24, 2019 (Cleveland)Progress is underway on federal legislation to authorize continued funding for the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP). Grant dollars awarded under the HPP support emergency preparedness activities led by The C ...
read moreMay 20, 2019 (Cleveland)On Monday, May 20, The Center for Health Affairs' newly announced President and CEO Brian Lane, was named to Crain's People on the Move list in Cleveland:
The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliat ...
read moreMay 15, 2019 (Cleveland)The month of May brought a change in leadership at The Center for Health Affairs, as Phil Mazanec handed the torch to Brian Lane. Brian’s first day at the organization was May 15, and May 31 will mark Phi ...
read moreMay 06, 2019 (Cleveland)CHAMPS Oncology, a business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, proudly appoints Karen Schmidt, CTR, as vice president, effective May 6, 2019. Schmidt will succeed Toni Hare, RHIT, CTR, following Hare&r ...
read moreMay 01, 2019 (Cleveland)This spring, The Center for Health Affairs welcomed two new grant-supported staff members to the team to support the organization’s emergency preparedness and community health work.
On April 29, Tracy Pat ...
read moreMay 01, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ Board of Directors has named Brian Lane as its new president and CEO, effective May 15. Lane will succeed Phil Mazanec, who has served the organization for nearly 40 years, ...
read moreApril 30, 2019 (Cleveland)Efforts to create stronger links between clinical medicine and public health continue to gain momentum in Cuyahoga County with the release of the 2019 Cuyahoga County Community Health Implementation Strategy, w ...
read moreApril 30, 2019 (Cleveland)A set of new office-based opioid treatment rules is taking effect April 30 in the state of Ohio. The rules stem from state budget legislation passed in 2017, which included provisions related to medication-assi ...
read moreApril 24, 2019 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, April 24, Kirstin Craciun, director of community outreach for The Center for Health Affairs, moderated a panel on the connection between healthcare and community development co-hosted by the Offic ...
read moreApril 02, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium this month hosted a group of international visitors who came to Cleveland seeking information about the opioid crisis and innovati ...
read moreMarch 26, 2019 (Cleveland)The HealthComp Foundation has announced its latest funding award along with the focus of its community-responsive grant-making for 2019.
A grant of $737,739 is being awarded over three years to create and susta ...
read moreMarch 22, 2019 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium has lent its support to the Comprehensive Opioid Program Extension Act (COPE Act) of 2019, federal legislation designed to combat the opioid crisis by augmenting th ...
read moreMarch 21, 2019 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium continues to participate in a broad effort to amend regulations to improve care coordination for patients with substance use disorders. This month, the Opioid Conso ...
read moreMarch 15, 2019 (Cleveland)On March 14, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) led a listening session with Cuyahoga County hospital, public health and community ...
read moreMarch 07, 2019 (Cleveland)CHAMPS Oncology Vice President Toni Hare, RHIT, CTR, announced today she will retire on May 3, 2019 after more than 29 years of dedicated service to CHAMPS Oncology, a business affiliate of The Center for Healt ...
read moreFebruary 25, 2019 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium has released a new video, highlighting the collaborative work underway by area hospitals to address the opioid crisis in the region.
The Opioid Consortium video fe ...
read moreFebruary 25, 2019 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs' 2018 survey of Northeast Ohio hospitals and allied health higher education programs, which identified significant allied health professional workforce shortages, has received rece ...
read moreFebruary 22, 2019 (Cleveland)
On Friday, Feb. 22, The Center for Health Affairs' 2019 Service Awards
Breakfast was held at the Crown Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse
Square. The ceremony honored 28 individuals from The Center, CHAMPS Oncology ...
read moreFebruary 21, 2019 (Cleveland)One local health system has found substantial benefit from an intervention designed to improve naloxone co-prescribing for patients who are prescribed opioids. The MetroHealth System’s Associate Chief Med ...
read moreFebruary 19, 2019 (Cleveland)On the heels of Winter Storm Jayden, which brought significant snowfall to Northeast Ohio in late January, temperatures plunged in the region due to a polar vortex that blasted the area with below-zero temperat ...
read moreJanuary 29, 2019 (Cleveland)In its work on behalf of the hospital membership, The Center for Health Affairs focused on delivering value in five core programs in 2018:
Community Health Outreach
Emergency Preparedness
Hospital ...
read moreJanuary 28, 2019 (Cleveland)A 2018 survey of Northeast Ohio hospitals and allied health higher education programs by The Center for Health Affairs has identified significant allied health professional workforce shortages. Most notably, a ...
read moreJanuary 24, 2019 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium is moving forward with its work to increase access to nasal naloxone, a critically important tool in the fight to prevent opioid overdose deaths.
An evaluation of n ...
read moreJanuary 14, 2019 (Cleveland)In recent weeks, Senior Vice President of Member Services Lisa Anderson has been quoted by the media on hospitals posting prices online, a new requirement as of Jan. 1.
ideastream Article on Hospitals Pos ...
read moreDecember 18, 2018 (Cleveland)The future of the hospital preparedness program (HPP) is on the line and The Center for Health Affairs is urging lawmakers to enact H.R. 6378, federal legislation preserving this critically important work.
In ...
read moreDecember 17, 2018 (Cleveland)The November/December 2018 issue of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio’s (AMCNO) Northern Ohio Physician profiles HIP-Cuyahoga’s efforts to bridge clinical medicine and public he ...
read moreDecember 14, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium has concluded pilot testing of its nurse education program, which is expected to launch in early 2019. The pilot ran for the month of November and was completed by ...
read moreDecember 11, 2018 (Cleveland)A set of state rules regarding office-based opioid treatment will not move forward. Following its Nov. 28 hearing, the State Medical Board of Ohio decided to pull the proposed rules, which had been a cause for ...
read moreNovember 28, 2018 (Cleveland)Early this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final rule on the 2019 hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), ending speculation over how they planned to mov ...
read moreNovember 27, 2018 (Cleveland)On Nov. 14, a tornado hit Northeast Ohio, requiring five area hospitals to evacuate a total of 1,000 patients. Or at least that was the scenario used in an exercise designed to test the region’s acute-car ...
read moreNovember 26, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium policy agenda progressed this month as the collaborative advocated for changes to two key issues that would strengthen efforts to combat opioid addiction and overdo ...
read moreNovember 15, 2018 (Cleveland)
In the ongoing effort to improve health outcomes in Cuyahoga County, local partners, including Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Department of Public Health, Cuyahoga County Board o ...
read moreOctober 29, 2018 (Cleveland)On Nov. 6, Ohioans will be asked to vote on an issue appearing on the statewide ballot: state Issue 1. Issue 1 would make substantial changes to how drug-related crimes are handled by the criminal justice syste ...
read moreOctober 26, 2018 (Cleveland)With hospitals in Northeast Ohio predicted to lose in excess of $37 million, The Center for Health Affairs in late September submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding ...
read moreOctober 25, 2018 (Cleveland)The nurse education initiative of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium is moving into the pilot phase. The program, which will include four separate modules upon completion, will soon be tested by at l ...
read moreOctober 23, 2018 (Cleveland)The future of the Hospital Preparedness Program rests with the U.S. Senate. This is the program that ultimately funds The Center for Health Affairs’ emergency preparedness work. In late September, the Hou ...
read moreSeptember 21, 2018 (Cleveland)By 2020, the shortage of registered nurses in Northeast Ohio is expected to reach 2,850, more than three times the shortage of 820 in 2017. This is according to The Center for Health Affairs' nursing forecaste ...
read moreSeptember 20, 2018 (Cleveland)The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO) featured the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium twice in its September/October 2018 Northern Ohio Physician publication.
The first feature ...
read moreSeptember 19, 2018 (Cleveland)Hospitals in the Greater-Cleveland area will receive an estimated $7.2 million in additional reimbursement during the upcoming federal fiscal year as a result of the latest Medicare wage index initiative led by ...
read moreSeptember 06, 2018 (Cleveland)On Sept. 6, the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium proudly sponsored, "Opioids: A Crisis Still Facing Our Entire Region,” a heroin and opioid conference hosted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. ...
read moreSeptember 05, 2018 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Sept. 5, cleveland.com published the healthcare editorial, "Beyond the Cleveland Clinic's No. 2 ranking is health care's growing importance for NE Ohio." In the piece, the editorial board cites da ...
read moreAugust 22, 2018 (Cleveland)Healthcare workforce diversity – and especially nursing workforce diversity – is on the minds of those in the position to make a difference, from healthcare organization chief executive officers and ...
read moreAugust 20, 2018 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, The Center for Health Affairs’ Interim President & CEO Phil Mazanec and Director of Government Relations Tony Gutowski were quoted in The Plain Dealer’s story on hospit ...
read moreAugust 17, 2018 (Cleveland)On Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, The Center for Health Affairs' Director, Healthcare Workforce, NEONI and Behavioral Health Initiatives Pam Waite, MSN, RN-BC, MHSA was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece ...
read moreAugust 15, 2018 (Cleveland)What if a disease outbreak overwhelmed hospitals in a neighboring state and then made its way to Cleveland? This month, area hospitals and a number of other organizations had the opportunity to test that scenar ...
read moreAugust 01, 2018 (Cleveland)Every year, thousands of newly minted nurses don their caps and gowns, commemorate the completion of their studies at graduation ceremonies, and enter the workforce in Ohio. If you could share a message with so ...
read moreJuly 31, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium strategic plan launched this month, bringing together participating organizations around a focused effort to address the opioid crisis. The epidemic facing the regi ...
read moreJuly 27, 2018 (Cleveland)The partnership between the Cleveland Department of Public Health, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and University Hospitals to produce a collaborative 2018 Cuyahoga County Community Health Assessment is ent ...
read moreJuly 25, 2018 (Cleveland)Anecdotal reports along with direct first-hand experience have led the members of the Behavioral Health RoundTable of Cuyahoga County to examine the issue of healthcare workplace violence. In recent months, par ...
read moreJuly 23, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium welcomes Camille Zalar, MHA, BSN, RN, CARN, as its new director of education and initiatives beginning July 23. In this role, Zalar will be responsible for overseei ...
read moreJune 25, 2018 (Cleveland)The second annual Common Ground conversations, a program of the Cleveland Foundation, took place at more than 100 sites across Northeast Ohio on Sunday, June 24. Many organizations in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga ...
read moreJune 21, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium shared its strategic agenda with U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and other key members of the community at a roundtable earlier this month hosted by MetroHealth Medica ...
read moreJune 19, 2018 (Cleveland)On June 19, seven members of a New Zealand health delegation met with several HIP-Cuyahoga Steering Committee members at a meeting hosted by The Center for Health Affairs. The New Zealand health delegation had ...
read moreJune 14, 2018 (Cleveland) The Center for Health Affairs is rolling out a redesign of NEONI, its regional healthcare workforce collaborative. At a June 14 meeting of NEONI members, leadership presented plans for a new governance st ...
read moreJune 01, 2018 (Cleveland)On Friday, June 1, professionals from around the region had the opportunity to glean valuable insight from individuals with real-life experience managing and responding to emergency events. Attendees of the 10t ...
read moreMay 17, 2018 (Cleveland)On Thursday, May 17, the U.S. Department of State highlighted a local opioid conference The Center for Health Affairs participated in last month for those interested in seeking to learn more about the Northeast ...
read moreMay 17, 2018 (Cleveland)The Education Committee of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium is designing a new opioid education initiative aimed at providing support for nursing and frontline staff at area hospitals. The committe ...
read moreMay 16, 2018 (Cleveland)Last week, Tony Gutowski, director of government affairs, The Center for Health Affairs, visited members of the Ohio congressional delegation to discuss The Center’s advocacy agenda. At the top of the age ...
read moreMay 15, 2018 (Cleveland)In partnership with the Ohio Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed), many of The Center for Health Affairs’ Northeast Ohio hospital members will be supporting the rollo ...
read moreMay 11, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio region will receive $785,676 in federal funding during the upcoming fiscal year to support the hospital emergency preparedness initiative. The funds, which come through the Ohio Department of ...
read moreApril 30, 2018 (Cleveland)On Sunday, April 29, Crain’s Cleveland Healthcare/Nonprofit Reporter Lydia Coutre published the article “Hospitals cry foul over Medicaid work requirements.”
The Center for Health Affairs&rsq ...
read moreApril 26, 2018 (Cleveland)A sold-out crowd of 240 attended the second annual workshop hosted by the Upper Northeast Ohio Regional Trauma-Informed Care Collaborative on April 26. The event, entitled “The Cost of Helping: An Organiz ...
read moreApril 25, 2018 (Cleveland)The number of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in Ohio is shrinking. In 2016, there were 48,539 LPNs licensed in Ohio, down 8.1 percent from 52,838 two years prior. The latest infographic published by NEONI, T ...
read moreApril 24, 2018 (Cleveland)There has been a lot of attention in Cuyahoga County focused on creating better linkages between clinical care and public health - work that was born out of HIP-Cuyahoga’s efforts to achieve a greater sta ...
read moreApril 15, 2018 (Cleveland)On Sunday, April 15, 2018, Crain's Cleveland Business published a letter to the editor submitted by the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium addressing a recently released opioid study promoting a flawed p ...
read moreApril 06, 2018 (Cleveland)On Friday, April 6, The Center for Health Affairs participated in a local conference on substance abuse and addiction by hosting a site visit for conference attendees seeking to learn more about the Northeast O ...
read moreMarch 23, 2018 (Cleveland)Allisyn Leppla, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, will be attending and presenting at several spring 2018 healthcare events on behalf of the Opioid Consortium, a partnership b ...
read moreMarch 19, 2018 (Cleveland)Last week, The Center for Health Affairs submitted comments to the Ohio Department of Medicaid opposing their current Medicaid waiver proposal. ODM drafted the proposal, referred to as the “Group VII ...
read moreMarch 13, 2018 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium has named Randy Jernejcic, MD, chief medical officer for University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center, as its first physician chair. The chair, who will serve a one-ye ...
read moreMarch 07, 2018 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs, which has been convening organizations and developing solutions to nursing workforce challenges through NEONI for 18 years, has launched a new collaborative aimed at bringing the ...
read moreMarch 02, 2018 (Cleveland)More than 60 hospital community health and public health leaders across Ohio tuned into The Power of Collaboration, a health assessment webinar, co-hosted by Ohio Public Health Partnership and The Center for He ...
read moreFebruary 22, 2018 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Feb. 22, The Center for Health Affairs' 2018 Service Awards
Breakfast was held at the Crown Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse
Square. The ceremony honored 19 individuals for their years of
service with ...
read moreFebruary 21, 2018 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Feb.21, Kirstin Craciun, MPP, MSW, director of community outreach for The Center for Health Affairs, spoke on a panel during The City Club of Cleveland event, “Why Community Health Planning ...
read moreFebruary 12, 2018 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Feb. 7, The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare’s Interim President & CEO Phil Mazanec announced two organizational changes at an all-team member meeting:
Yolandi Myers, S ...
read moreFebruary 09, 2018 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Feb. 8, the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium held its first joint meeting of 2018 at The Center for Health Affairs. Representatives from The Center, as well as Opioid Consortium members in ...
read moreJanuary 25, 2018 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Jan. 25, ABC News 5 interviewed The Center for Health Affairs' ASPR Project Director Beth Gatlin, RN, MA-HSM, for a story on the busy flu season and the nation's preparedness to handle a major flu ...
read moreJanuary 24, 2018 (Cleveland)A team from The Center for Health Affairs collaborated with staff from the Cleveland Clinic on a Financial Leadership Program presentation given on Jan. 24 at the Lerner Research Institute.
The Center's Interim ...
read moreJanuary 15, 2018 (Cleveland)Changes have been announced to The Center for Health Affairs' board, as well as to the CHAMPS Healthcare boards and the GCHA board. The CHAMPS boards govern The Center's business affiliate and the GCHA board go ...
read moreDecember 22, 2017 (Cleveland)Timothy L. Jarm stepped down from his position as president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare on Friday, Dec. 22. Phil Mazanec, The Center’s chief operating officer and a 39- ...
read moreDecember 19, 2017 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Dec. 19, Crain’s Cleveland released its list of the top 10 healthcare stories of 2017. Number five on the list was the creative ways Northeast Ohio has found to address the opioid crisis.
As p ...
read moreDecember 18, 2017 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Dec. 17, Crain’s Cleveland published an article on the increase in community benefit that hospitals have increasingly seen.
While many saw an increased number of insured patients access their ...
read moreDecember 14, 2017 (Cleveland)A concerted effort is underway in Cuyahoga County to identify areas where hospitals, the Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health (CCBH) can collaborate on 2018/2019 ...
read moreDecember 07, 2017 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio nursing workforce was the topic of discussion during an advisory board meeting at Chamberlain College of Nursing on Thursday, Dec. 7.
Pam Waite, MSN, RN-BC, MHSA, director of healthcare ...
read moreDecember 04, 2017 (Cleveland)Several times a year, the executives from regional and metropolitan associations from across the country come together to learn from one another about how to best serve their members. On Thursday, Nov. 30, The ...
read moreNovember 28, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs' CHNA Roundtable, comprised of Northeast Ohio hospital staff involved in community health needs assessment (CHNA) work or community health initiatives at their facilities, has unan ...
read moreNovember 27, 2017 (Cleveland)The Key Indicators Report released in November examines the rise in drug-related emergency department visits in Northeast Ohio. The report, which uses information from both The Center’s Volume Statistics ...
read moreNovember 21, 2017 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Nov. 15, the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium held its first joint meeting at The Center for Health Affairs. Representatives from The Center, Cleveland Clinic, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA M ...
read moreNovember 20, 2017 (Cleveland)Throughout the 2017-2018 school year, The Center for Health Affairs’ Amy Witzigreuter, director of strategic relationships and Mia Salvano, business development manager are participating in the True2U you ...
read moreNovember 16, 2017 (Cleveland)A recent evacuation exercise, led by The Center for Health Affairs’ Emergency Preparedness team, required local healthcare coalition agencies to collaborate and simulate an evacuation due to an earthquake ...
read moreNovember 13, 2017 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Nov. 12, Crain’s Cleveland published an article on proposed state cuts to Medicaid reimbursement, specifically a proposed rate cut of 5% over the biennium for the care provided to Medicaid reci ...
read moreNovember 01, 2017 (Cleveland)
The Nurse Professionalism and Professional Identity Study, recently released by NEONI, The Center for Health Affairs' workforce initiative, provides insights about the importance of professionalism in nursin ...
read moreOctober 30, 2017 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs opposes Issue 2, the Ohio Drug Relief Act. This position mirrors that of more than 70 organizations including: the Ohio Hospital Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, th ...
read moreOctober 24, 2017 The Center for Health Affairs recently released its , which highlights the regional impact of hospitals on the local economy, its patients and its employees. In conjunction with the Fact Sheet, this year The Ce ...
read moreOctober 19, 2017 (Cleveland)Over the course of the past month, The Center for Health Affairs facilitated a number of lawmaker meetings with representatives from Northeast Ohio to discuss the impact of Ohio’s recently passed biennium ...
read moreOctober 16, 2017 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Oct. 12, Newsradio WTAM 1100 interviewed The Center for Health Affairs' Vice President of Corporate Communications Deanna Moore on the President Trump executive order directing changes to the healt ...
read moreOctober 11, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs held its first annual meeting in over a decade on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at the Union Club in downtown Cleveland. Attendees included members of The Center for Health Affairs' board, ho ...
read moreOctober 10, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has formally launched its 2017-2020 strategic direction, which was approved by The Center for Health Affairs' board on Sept. 21 and unveiled at The Center’s 2017 annual meeti ...
read moreSeptember 19, 2017 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Sept. 19, a team of 14 volunteers from The Center for Health Affairs’ leadership team took an afternoon off to volunteer together at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank. The team, which included P ...
read moreSeptember 14, 2017 (Cleveland)On Sept. 14, Allisyn Leppla, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, participated in a roundtable discussion at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center on the region’s op ...
read moreSeptember 05, 2017 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Sept. 5, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article on the newly formed Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium and The Center for Health Affairs' neutral role in bringing hospitals together ...
read moreSeptember 01, 2017 (Cleveland)Each quarter, NEONI members bring together nursing leaders, clinical agencies, educators and organizations to discuss and determine ways to support various healthcare initiatives in Northeast Ohio. This unique ...
read moreAugust 30, 2017 (Cleveland, OH)In June, 631 behavioral health patients in Cuyahoga County awaited an inpatient psych bed, according to a 30-day study released by The Center for Health Affairs.
The study, Behavioral Health Patients Utilizin ...
read moreAugust 28, 2017 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is proud to be recognized by ERC as one of NorthCoast 99’s best places to work in Northeast Ohio. NorthCoast 99 is an annual recognition program that recognizes great places ...
read moreAugust 25, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has been awarded $796,993 in hospital emergency preparedness funding for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. These funds, awarded through the Ohio Department of Health and the Assistant Sec ...
read moreAugust 23, 2017 (Cleveland)Brandi Robinson, deputy director in the Office of Health Policy and Performance Improvement at the Ohio Department of Health, presented information to the CHNA Roundtable and answered questions from participant ...
read moreAugust 22, 2017 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, housed at The Center for Health Affairs, will be responsible for coordinating hospital activities aimed at stemming the Northeast Ohio opioid epidemic. This is the ...
read moreJuly 24, 2017 (Cleveland)On Friday, July 21, President and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs Tim Jarm met with Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, and his Chief of Staff, Sharon Sobol Jordan. During the meeting, Jarm ...
read moreJuly 21, 2017 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, July 19, Tony Gutowski, director of government affairs, attended the Northeast Ohio Outreach and Enrollment Council meeting and presented on the potential impact of federal healthcare legislation ...
read moreJuly 20, 2017 (Cleveland)Changes have been announced to The Center for Health Affairs' board, as well as to the CHAMPS Healthcare boards and the GCHA board. The CHAMPS boards govern The Center's business affiliate and th ...
read moreJuly 14, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs recently collaborated with stakeholders representing the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and HIP-Cuyahoga on a panel presentation at the National Association of County and City Hea ...
read moreJune 27, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center’s director of community outreach, Kirstin Craciun, MPP, MSW, presented community health needs assessment (CHNA) information at the Lakewood Wellness Foundation Planning Task Force Meeting ...
read moreJune 26, 2017 (Cleveland)2017 marked not only a new era of leadership at The Center for Health Affairs but also an opportunity to closely examine the direction of the organization as a whole. Upon taking the reins as The Center’s ...
read moreJune 22, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center’s June 22 CHNA Roundtable meeting provided members the opportunity to hear regulatory updates related to community health needs assessments (CHNAs). There has been significant action at the fed ...
read moreJune 21, 2017 (Cleveland)On Thursday, June 21, The Center’s Reimbursement Forum members met with representatives from CGS Administrators, LLC (CGS) to discuss Medicare audit and reimbursement issues. CGS, which assists in hospita ...
read moreJune 20, 2017 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio (NEO) Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Healthcare Coalition Conference on emergency preparedness was held Friday, June 9 at Auburn Career Center in Painesville, Ohio.
The Center fo ...
read moreMay 26, 2017 (Cleveland)The latest Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends by The Center for Health Affairs examined year-end hospital volumes in 2016. Among the many trends affecting providers in Northeast Ohio was the averag ...
read moreMay 24, 2017 (Cleveland)On Friday, May 19, The Center for Health Affairs announced a partnership with Northeast Ohio hospital members Cleveland Clinic, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, University Hospitals, MetroHealth a ...
read moreMay 22, 2017 (Cleveland)On May 22, The Center for Health Affairs' director of community outreach, Kirstin Craciun, MPP, MSW, presented information on Northeast Ohio community benefit spending and state-level population health planning ...
read moreMay 11, 2017 (Cleveland)On Thursday, May 11, The Center for Health Affairs' president and CEO Tim Jarm joined hospital CEOs from MetroHealth, University Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic and St. Vincent’s Charity Medical Center for a ...
read moreMay 10, 2017 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, May 10, ABC News 5 cited The Center's data on nurses needed in the coming years to address a shortage of nurses in the area, especially nurses capable of taking on leadership and management roles. ...
read moreMay 07, 2017 (Cleveland)On Sunday, May 7, Crain’s Cleveland published an article discussing Cleveland Clinic's search for Toby Cosgrove's successor. The Center for Health Affairs’ President & CEO, Tim Jarm, weighed in. ...
read moreApril 24, 2017 (Cleveland)In March, Southwest General Health Center welcomed several high school students for one-on-one job shadowing and to gain first-hand knowledge of healthcare career opportunities in areas including laboratory, ph ...
read moreApril 24, 2017 (Cleveland)Regional healthcare cyber security exercises were recently led by The Center for Health Affairs’ Emergency Preparedness team.
The Center’s emergency preparedness experts collaborated with its region ...
read moreApril 18, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ director of community outreach, Kirstin Craciun, co-presented population health planning information to the University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center management team on Apri ...
read moreMarch 27, 2017 (Cleveland)With the launch of its responsive website, neohospitals.org, in March, The Center for Health Affairs officially updated its strategy to provide timely, insightful, unbiased information on the healthcare environ ...
read moreMarch 24, 2017 (Cleveland)Communities across Ohio have been working to strengthen care coordination. Toward that goal, some communities in the Buckeye State have implemented the Pathways Community HUB model to strengthen care coordinati ...
read moreMarch 22, 2017 (Cleveland, OH)On Sunday, March 19, Crain’s Cleveland published an article discussing how Medicaid cuts would impact the region’s workforce, services and programs. The Center for Health Affairs’ President &a ...
read moreMarch 20, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, has launched its new responsive website neohospitals.org. The website now boasts a streamlined look, along with responsive desig ...
read moreMarch 17, 2017 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, March 14, NEONI’s Nursing Forecaster was cited in a Plain Dealer article discussing the efforts to increase the number of nursing degrees. NEONI, The Center for Health Affairs’ workforce ...
read moreFebruary 27, 2017 (Cleveland)Workforce shortage issues due to demographic changes are now being addressed by businesses utilizing prep2practice™ to build their workforce pipeline. prep2practice is an online workforce planning tool, p ...
read moreFebruary 24, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs presented its latest Strategic Direction Scorecard at its the Feb. 16 board meeting, highlighting progress on its initiatives from July through December 2016.
The C ...
read moreFebruary 23, 2017 (Cleveland)Cigna Government Services recently reappointed Bob Kaliszewski, project manager, Member Services, The Center for Health Affairs, for its 2017 Provider Outreach and Education (POE) Advisory Committee.
Throughout ...
read moreFebruary 22, 2017 (Cleveland)State-Level Population Health Planning: Upcoming SHA/SHIP Webinar Opportunities and Key Findings for Hospitals
Throughout 2016, a diverse group of stakeholders met to help shape the focus of state-level p ...
read moreFebruary 21, 2017 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Bangor Daily News cited The Center for Health Affairs’ Vice President of Initiatives and Analytics, Patricia Cirillo in the article, "Maine nurses: To avoid shortage, improve our work ...
read moreFebruary 07, 2017 (Cleveland)The Center kicked off the first CHNA Roundtable meeting of 2017 centered around learning from local community partners focused on addressing obesity in Northeast Ohio. Obesity consistently ranks as a key health ...
read moreFebruary 03, 2017 (Cleveland)On Saturday, Jan. 28, Crain’s Cleveland published an article on the regional healthcare staffing challenges hospitals face as baby boomers prepare for retirement. The Center for Health Affairs’ Vice ...
read moreJanuary 27, 2017 (Cleveland)Hospital volumes are on the rise in light of the opiate crisis in Northeast Ohio, according to a recently published Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends by The Center for Health Affairs. As hospitals ...
read moreJanuary 26, 2017 (Cleveland)At its latest board meeting, trustees of the Greater Cleveland Healthcare Association (GCHA), the board that oversees the nonprofit programs of The Center for Health Affairs, received the biannual GCHA Board Up ...
read moreJanuary 25, 2017 (Cleveland)On Jan. 30 The Center for Health Affairs enters a new era. On this day, current president and CEO Bill Ryan steps down to begin his retirement and new leader Tim Jarm will begin his work as the association&rsqu ...
read moreJanuary 17, 2017 (Cleveland)After over a combined decade of honing their writing skills via white papers, several staff members at The Center for Health Affairs have agreed to wade into the blogosphere. For years, the association has prov ...
read moreJanuary 09, 2017 (Cleveland)On Friday, Dec. 16, Public Health Emergency published an article on the Republican National Convention discussing hospital emergency preparation and coordination with the Northeast Ohio Regional Health Care Coa ...
read moreDecember 19, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare announced today that the executive search committee of its board of trustees has selected Tim Jarm as the organization’s new pres ...
read moreDecember 16, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ Kirstin Craciun, director of community outreach, was among six panelists who shared their perspectives regarding how the state health assessment (SHA) will impact their work ...
read moreDecember 13, 2016 (Cleveland)Recently, the Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga (HIP-Cuyahoga) Consortium nominated and voted to fill new standing and at-large positions of the steering committee. The Center for Health Affairs’ Ki ...
read moreDecember 05, 2016 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Volume Statistics Report released on Dec. 5, which reflects October 2016 data, included changes to modernize the report and ensure it meets the high data standards users have come to expect. ...
read moreNovember 29, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs – together with a diverse array of stakeholders – has been actively involved in state-level population health planning meetings throughout 2016 that have informed the d ...
read moreNovember 22, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)A recently published Key Indicators Report by The Center for Health Affairs examines the impact of health insurance reforms on hospital volume in Northeast Ohio. Health insurance coverage, which continues to gr ...
read moreNovember 03, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)With 2017 open enrollment now underway, health insurance consumers across the nation again have the opportunity to find an insurance plan or change the one they currently have. Here in Northeast Ohio, hospitals ...
read moreOctober 20, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening health insurance and community navigation efforts in Northeast Ohio by forging an alliance with the Cuyahoga Health Access Partnershi ...
read moreOctober 20, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)On Monday, Oct. 17, Ohio Public Radio Station WKSU featured The Center for Health Affairs’ report, which highlights the impact hospitals have on the Northeast Ohio economy. The segment was also picked up ...
read moreOctober 17, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)On Sunday, Oct. 16, Crain’s Cleveland published an article discussing The Center for Health Affairs’ economic impact report. According to the latest report, hospitals in Northeast Ohio contributed t ...
read moreOctober 10, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)On Sunday, Oct. 9, Crain’s Cleveland published an article discussing new student options available through The Center for Health Affairs’ online tool, prep2practice™. Available this fall, prep ...
read moreSeptember 29, 2016 (Cleveland, OH)In an effort to help strengthen the future workforce in Northeast Ohio and beyond, The Center for Health Affairs recently developed prep2practice™, an online tool that works with businesses and schools to ...
read moreSeptember 29, 2016 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Sept. 25, The Center for Health Affairs’ President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain’s Cleveland article discussing the rejection of the state’s Medicaid fee proposal known as ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2016 (Cleveland, OH)Hospitals in Northeast Ohio contributed to a direct and indirect labor income of $11.5 billion and a total of 167,534 jobs in the region, according to a new report released by The Center for Health Affairs. The ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2016 (Cleveland)The 2016 member ROI Report, released on Sept. 22 at The Center for Health Affairs board meeting, shows a return on investment of 38.27. In other words, for every dollar member hospitals paid in dues in 2016, th ...
read moreSeptember 22, 2016 (Cleveland)The shortage of nurses in Northeast Ohio is expected to increase from 750 to 3,500 in 2020, according to NEONI’s recently released 2015 Nursing Forecaster.
“We’re optimistic that through our N ...
read moreSeptember 07, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare were featured in a special centennial publication released in the Sept. 5 issue of Crain’s Cleveland Business.
The piece, The Center for Health Affairs ...
read moreAugust 31, 2016 (Cleveland)On Monday, Aug. 15, Ohio.com published an article highlighting varying levels of enrollment in federally subsidized health insurance depending on geography. The article featured information from a joint report ...
read moreAugust 30, 2016 On Aug. 20, in honor of its , The Center for Health Affairs released, "," a publication highlighting the organization, its history and where it stands today. The piece includes interviews from a variety of ...
read moreAugust 25, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare presented a check to Medworks for $311,010 at their centennial event on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. Medworks will use the funds to create a n ...
read moreAugust 18, 2016 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare are pleased to announce they have become members of The Advisory Board. The Advisory Board Company is a membership-based firm, headquartered in Washingto ...
read moreAugust 11, 2016 (Cleveland)On Friday, Aug. 5, The Center for Health Affairs’ government relations manager, Tony Gutowski, was quoted in a Cleveland 19 News article discussing the Healthy Ohio Medicaid waiver proposal heading to the ...
read moreAugust 10, 2016 (Cleveland)A recently published Medicaid enrollment blog by The Center for Health Affairs and The Center for Community Solutions examines Marketplace take-up rates in Northeast Ohio, which ranged from virtually no partici ...
read moreAugust 05, 2016 (Cleveland)On August 5, The Center submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the Healthy Ohio program, voicing its concerns with the proposal and the impact it would have on healthcar ...
read moreJuly 28, 2016 (Cleveland)RNC Responsibilities
Every day during the Republican National Convention Beth Gatlin, The Center for Health Affairs’ director of emergency preparedness, and Andrea Bishop, emergency preparedness project m ...
read moreJuly 27, 2016 (Cleveland)ACEMAPP, a real-time online clinical rotation matching system that includes student onboarding materials and document storage solutions for clinical sites, schools, students and faculty has recently been update ...
read moreJuly 12, 2016 (Cleveland)A recently published Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends by The Center for Health Affairs examines the drop in hospital observation status and the impact of the 2015-16 influenza season on hospital ...
read moreJuly 11, 2016 (Cleveland, OH)Northeast Ohio hospitals account for a total of 167,543 jobs and create $11.5 billion in labor income according to information in the Northeast Ohio hospital economic report released by The Center for Heal ...
read moreJuly 06, 2016 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, July 6, The Center for Health Affairs convened a meeting with the Region V U.S. Office of Health and Human Service (HHS), Enroll America and its Cleveland-based hospitals to discuss the upcoming o ...
read moreJune 28, 2016 (Cleveland)Since his appointment in January to the Cigna Government Services (CGS) Provider Outreach and Education (POE) Advisory Committee, Bob Kaliszewski, project manager at The Center for Health Affairs has served as ...
read moreJune 27, 2016 (Cleveland)Patricia Cirillo, PhD, vice president of initiatives and analytics, The Center for Health Affairs, presented Nurse Turnover and Geographic Relocation Patterns at The 2016 National Forum of State Nursing Workfor ...
read moreJune 01, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs was awarded $789,110 in hospital emergency preparedness funds for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. These funds, awarded through the Ohio Department of Health and the Assistant Secretary ...
read moreMay 31, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare's centennial is the subject of a special issue of Cleveland Magazine being released this month, along with the magazine's June 2016 issue. The special issue, ...
read moreMay 27, 2016 OHTrac, a web-based patient tracking system, is now available for hospitals and response agencies in Ohio to use when responding to mass casualty incidents or disaster situations in the state.
How OHTrac Work ...
read moreMay 24, 2016 (Cleveland)A four-week ACEMAPP clinical rotation pilot with approximately 30 Cleveland State University (CSU)-Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) pre-medical and medical students and the Northeast Ohio Neighbo ...
read moreMay 16, 2016 (Cleveland)Today, after extensive review and discussion with hospital members over the last month, The Center for Health Affairs formally submitted its concerns regarding the Healthy Ohio waiver in a comment letter to the ...
read moreMay 16, 2016 (Cleveland)On Saturday, May 14, The Center for Health Affairs’ President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain’s Cleveland article on the upcoming 150th anniversary of University Hospitals (UH).
In the UH an ...
read moreApril 27, 2016 (Cleveland)Hospital volume in Northeast Ohio had its fair share of fluctuation in 2015, according to a recently published Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends by The Center for Health Affairs. Wh ...
read moreApril 25, 2016 (Cleveland, OH)After 14 years of service to the organization, Bill Ryan, president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare, has made the decision to retire at the end of 2016. The Center for Health Affa ...
read moreApril 14, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs recognized National Donate Life Month in April by serving as a community partner for The City Club of Cleveland’s event, “Unsung Heroes: Behind the Scenes of Organ, Eye ...
read moreMarch 29, 2016 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, March 23, The Center for Health Affairs’ Senior Vice President of Member Services Lisa Anderson was interviewed by WEWS-TV, a local ABC affiliate, in a piece discussing the current nursing s ...
read moreMarch 27, 2016 (Cleveland)On Sunday, March 27, Crain’s Cleveland Business featured The Center for Health Affairs’ president and CEO, Bill Ryan, as a health care source regularly used by the business newspaper. The article wa ...
read moreMarch 22, 2016 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, March 22, The Center for Health Affairs’ ASPR Project Director Beth Gatlin was interviewed by Cleveland.com discussing how federal grant funding cuts will affect their preparedness in the futu ...
read moreMarch 21, 2016 (Cleveland)On Sunday, March 20, The Center for Health Affairs’ President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain’s Cleveland article discussing the lack of discussion about Obamacare in this election cycle.
In ...
read moreMarch 17, 2016 (Cleveland)On Thursday, March 17, The Center for Health Affairs launched a healthcare podcast to feature its monthly Issue Briefs and Policy Snapshots. For more than 10 years, The Center has released these publications to ...
read moreMarch 16, 2016 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, March 16, The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliate, CHAMPS Healthcare, partnered with Premier, Inc. to host an educational event on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act ...
read moreFebruary 24, 2016 (Cleveland)In December, The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare announced Medworks as the beneficiary of a joint philanthropic effort to be unveiled at The Center / CHAMPS' centennial event being held Saturday ...
read moreFebruary 23, 2016 (Cleveland)The Cigna Government Services (CGS) Jurisdiction 15 Part A 2016 Provider Outreach and Education (POE) Advisory Committee recently selected Bob Kaliszewski, project manager, Member Services, The Center for Healt ...
read moreFebruary 16, 2016 (Cleveland)
To highlight and promote its healthcare workforce programs, NEONI, The Center for Health Affairs’ workforce initiative, recently released new informational videos on their four key offerings.
prep ...
read moreFebruary 15, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has been selected to complete a comprehensive needs assessment for the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County. The ADAMHS Board needs ...
read moreFebruary 12, 2016 (Cleveland)At its latest board meeting, trustees of the Greater Cleveland Healthcare Association (GCHA), the board that oversees the nonprofit programs of The Center for Health Affairs, received the GCHA Biannual Board Up ...
read moreJanuary 28, 2016 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has announced changes to its board as well as to the boards of its business affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare and to GCHA, the nonprofit corporate entity that houses community activities ...
read moreJanuary 18, 2016 (Cleveland)On Monday, Jan. 18, The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare unveiled a centennial website to serve as an informational hub for all the activities and details associated with their 100th anniversary. ...
read moreJanuary 14, 2016 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Jan. 14, The Center for Health Affairs’ President and CEO Bill Ryan participated in a discussion with other healthcare policy and economic experts on an episode of ideastream’s® The ...
read moreJanuary 11, 2016 (Cleveland)Outpatient surgical volume in Northeast Ohio continued to grow in the third quarter of 2015, according to a recently published Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends by The Center for Health Affairs. C ...
read moreJanuary 04, 2016 (Cleveland)Following a concerted, year-long collaboration between The Center for Health Affairs, University Hospitals, and Cypress Research Group, University Hospitals has released their 2015 Community Health Needs Assess ...
read moreDecember 22, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs is joining forces with leaders from local governments, foundations and hospitals to reduce infant mortality in Northeast Ohio. On Dec. 30, 2015, The Center and its member hospitals ...
read moreDecember 17, 2015 (Cleveland)On Monday, The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare announced Medworks as the beneficiary of a joint philanthropic effort to be unveiled at their centennial event being held Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
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read moreDecember 14, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliate, CHAMPS Healthcare, are happy to announce the completion of their 100 Days of Service initiative, during which the organization achieved a total of 110 s ...
read moreDecember 07, 2015 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Dec. 1, Deanna Moore, vice president of corporate communications, and Tony Gutowski, manager of government relations, traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with members of the Northeast Ohio congressi ...
read moreNovember 30, 2015 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' Key Indicators Report was cited in an ideastream® report by Sarah Jane Tribble on psychological and drug addiction treatment. The Center's Key Ind ...
read moreNovember 19, 2015 (Cleveland)Total psychiatric patient volume in Northeast Ohio continued to rise in the second quarter of 2015, according to a recently published Key Indicators report by The Center for Health Affairs. Psychiatric volume, ...
read moreNovember 18, 2015 (Cleveland)With 2016 Marketplace open enrollment now underway, health insurance consumers across the nation again have the opportunity to find an insurance plan or change the one they currently have. Here in Northeast Ohi ...
read moreOctober 26, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs hosted the third meeting of the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Roundtable on October 15. The meeting focused on best practices in community health improvement.
Lillian Ku ...
read moreOctober 23, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs, in collaboration with its consulting partner, Gerald Doeksen, PhD, has begun work on a regional economic impact study of its member hospitals. The study, which is conducted every ...
read moreOctober 23, 2015 (Cleveland)What is NEONI, a video recently released by The Center for Health Affairs, brings the organization’s workforce initiative to life by briefly explaining its work to develop, implement and sustain healthcar ...
read moreOctober 12, 2015 (Cleveland)On Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 The Center for Health Affairs’ President and CEO Bill Ryan participated in a Cleveland Press Club panel at Music Box Supper Club entitled, "The Race for Dominance Among Cleveland's ...
read moreOctober 08, 2015 (Cleveland)To help facilitate collaboration related to population health planning in Ohio, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO) has been commissioned by the Governor’s Office of Health Transformation, the Ohio ...
read moreOctober 01, 2015 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2015, research from the The Center for Health Affairs' NEONI Nursing Forecaster was featured in a WKYC segment on the nation’s nursing shortage.
In the WKYC nursing shortage segmen ...
read moreSeptember 29, 2015 (Cleveland)According to a new report from The Center for Health Affairs, member ROI for 2015 is 30.08. In other words, for every dollar member hospitals pay in dues, they receive $30.08 in value. Member ROI as well as met ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2015 (Cleveland)On Aug. 11 a group of employees from The Center for Health Affairs and its business affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare spent the day volunteering at Cleveland Green Corps, a program of the Cleveland Botanical Garden, ...
read moreSeptember 27, 2015 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece on the state of Akron health care.
In the piece, "A lifeline for Akro ...
read moreSeptember 11, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs announced Monday the appointment of Laura Gronowski as Chief of Staff for the non-profit and its business affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare. In this role Gronowski will lead organization ...
read moreSeptember 07, 2015 (Cleveland)At its latest board meeting, trustees of the Greater Cleveland Healthcare Association (GCHA), the board that oversees the nonprofit programs of The Center for Health Affairs, received a GCHA Scorecard, covering ...
read moreSeptember 01, 2015 (Cleveland, OH)The Center for Health Affairs is proud to announce it has been named to NorthCoast 99’s list of best places to work by ERC. This prestigious award honors 99 Northeast Ohio organizations that have implemen ...
read moreAugust 28, 2015 (Cleveland)On Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Plain Dealer piece on the Akron General merger with Cleveland Clinic.
In the piece, "In latest mega-mer ...
read moreAugust 28, 2015 (Cleveland)On Friday, Aug. 14, Tony Gutowski, public policy development manager, visited the Statehouse in Columbus to provide updates to legislative offices. On behalf of its hospital members, The Center for Health Affai ...
read moreAugust 26, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has been awarded $809,344 in hospital emergency preparedness funds for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. These funds, awarded through the Ohio Department of Health and the Assistant Secre ...
read moreAugust 20, 2015 Despite their nonprofit property tax exemption, hospitals in Northeast Ohio contributed more than $99 million to local municipalities in direct revenue and over $900 million in community benefit, according to r ...
read moreAugust 10, 2015 (Cleveland)According to The Center for Health Affairs most recent Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends, the first quarter of 2015 demonstrated a steady rise in hospital volume for Northeast Ohio providers. Incr ...
read moreJuly 29, 2015 (Cleveland)To test local emergency operation plans and meet the Hospital Preparedness Program grant requirements, The Center for Health Affairs’ emergency preparedness team annually collaborates with member hospital ...
read moreJuly 24, 2015 (Cleveland)In an effort to help consumers understand complex healthcare jargon and demystify commonly asked questions, The Center for Health Affairs has created a hospital price transparency Q & A. The piece is intend ...
read moreJuly 23, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce Volume Statistics program updates aimed at making the tool easier and more efficient for members. While there are a number of enhancements that are a part of ...
read moreJuly 01, 2015 Hospitals in Northeast Ohio provided nearly $1.3 billion in benefits aimed at improving the health of the region in 2013, according to The Center for Health Affairs newly released 2015 . The new piece, which us ...
read moreJune 23, 2015 (Cleveland)Collaborating to achieve nursing excellence by sharing knowledge and best practices in nursing practice, education, research, quality and safety is the overarching goal of NEONI’s Practice, Education, Res ...
read moreJune 22, 2015 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs is proud to announce that it has been selected as one of The Plain Dealer’s Top Workplaces in Cleveland. The Center is one of only 150 organizations in Cleveland to be recogn ...
read moreJune 19, 2015 (Cleveland, Ohio)Reimbursement Forum members were presented with the FY 2016 wage index results at their June 16 meeting where they learned that Northeast Ohio hospitals can expect $19.4 million in additional fee-for-service Me ...
read moreJune 11, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs hosted the second meeting of the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Roundtable on Wednesday, June 10. The focus of the meeting was to understand the top health priorities tha ...
read moreJune 01, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs hosted a meeting with hospital members to discuss Medicaid and Marketplace enrollment efforts on Tuesday, May 19. Kathleen Falk, Region 5 Director of the U.S. Department of Health ...
read moreMay 26, 2015 (Cleveland)The treatment and prevention of substance use and misuse issues continues to be a top health need identified by many member hospitals’ community health needs assessments. Recognizing that substance abuse ...
read moreMay 22, 2015 (Cleveland)Violence against healthcare workers was the topic of a forum coordinated by The Center for Health Affairs’ Behavioral Health RoundTable on Friday, May 22 at Lutheran Medical Center. The event, entitled Ma ...
read moreMay 11, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs kicked off its 100 Days of Service initiative Friday, May 8 as part of their year-long celebration marking 100 years of hospital advocacy in Northeast Ohio.
The 100 Days of Service ...
read moreMay 07, 2015 (Cleveland)On Thursday, May 7, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' Vice President of Corporate Communications Deanna Moore was quoted in a Modern Healthcare piece on GOP-led Medicaid expansion states by Virgil Dickson.&n ...
read moreMay 06, 2015 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, celebrate National Nurses Week May 6 through May 12. The purpose of National Nurses Week is to raise awareness of the important role nurses pla ...
read moreApril 20, 2015 The Center for Health Affairs recently updated its Medicaid FAQ to address questions repeatedly emphasized by Ohio lawmakers. The summarizes the impact extending the state’s Medicaid program has had in N ...
read moreApril 01, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs provided testimony on Medicaid reauthorization to the Cleveland City Council with advocates from the Northeast Ohio healthcare community on Monday, March 30. Bill Ryan, president a ...
read moreMarch 27, 2015 (Cleveland)Emergency room cases rose by nearly 14 percent in December of 2014 according to The Center for Health Affairs most recent Key Indicators Report on hospital market trends, now available on the legacy Volume Stat ...
read moreMarch 26, 2015 (Cleveland)During the past several months, The Center for Health Affairs has been executing its 2015 advocacy agenda. At the top of this year’s agenda is Ohio’s biennial state budget, with a specific focus on ...
read moreMarch 24, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs hosted the first meeting of the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Roundtable on Tuesday, March 24. Julie Trocchio, senior director of community benefit and continuing c ...
read moreMarch 23, 2015 (Cleveland)On Friday, March 20, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' President & CEO Bill Ryan weighed in on the new Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center and other preparations for a growing number of cancer patients in an ...
read moreMarch 18, 2015 (Cleveland)To provide data on clinical placements to its users, The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, annually generate ACEMAPP reports.
With its online nursing clinical placement and matching ...
read moreFebruary 23, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has released updated strategic direction metrics that include a 2015 Member Return on Investment Statement and a Winter 2015 Strategic Direction Scorecard, both of ...
read moreFebruary 20, 2015 (Cleveland)NEONI will celebrate nursing leadership by recognizing Northeast Ohio’s industry leaders and supporting partners at its NEONI Nursing Excellence 2015 event on April 30 at LACENTRE Conference and Banquet F ...
read moreFebruary 18, 2015 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs encourages those who gained health insurance through Ohio’s Medicaid expansion to take action to keep their benefits. Under the law, people who signed up for health insurance ...
read moreFebruary 09, 2015 (Cleveland)Marketplace open enrollment ends on Feb. 15, which leaves only a few days for people without insurance to sign up for a plan in 2015. For consumers who still need to get covered, or for those who want to make c ...
read moreFebruary 02, 2015 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan Authored the Plain Dealer guest column, "Why Medicaid expansion has been good for Ohio."
In the piece, Ryan makes several case ...
read moreJanuary 28, 2015 (Cleveland)
Northeast Ohio Ebola efforts were recently featured in The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio’s (AMCNO) Northern Ohio Physician January/February 2015 issue.
The Center for Health Affairs ...
read moreJanuary 27, 2015 (Cleveland)NEONI’s nursing research database, created to support Northeast Ohio nursing educators, students in the research process and clinical and administrative nurses, has entered its beta-testing phase. It was ...
read moreJanuary 26, 2015 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' President & CEO Bill Ryan weighed in on the closing of Lakewood Hospital in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece by Timothy Magaw.
In the Crain's piece ...
read moreJanuary 23, 2015 (Cleveland)On Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, The Center for Health Affairs' Vice President of Corporate Communications Deanna Moore was quoted in a Cleveland Jewish News piece on retirement healthcare needs by Jonah Rosenblum.&nb ...
read moreJanuary 16, 2015 (Cleveland)Efforts to plan a year-long celebration marking 100 years of hospital advocacy in Northeast Ohio have begun at The Center for Health Affairs. Formally organized in March of 1916, The Center has become known as ...
read moreJanuary 05, 2015 (Cleveland, Ohio)On Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, The Northeast Ohio Patient Navigation Collaborative (NEOPNC), in conjunction with The Center for Health Affairs and the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio (AMCNO) conve ...
read moreJanuary 01, 2015 (Cleveland)To streamline its healthcare job shadowing experience process, The Center for Health Affairs’ workforce initiative, NEONI, developed and recently launched prep2practice™. prep2practice is an online ...
read moreDecember 31, 2014 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, a report published by The Center for Health Affairs analyzing the recent rise in Northeast Ohio emergency department visits was highlighted by WEWS News Channel 5.
In the piece, ...
read moreDecember 22, 2014 (Cleveland)The Northeast Ohio Patient Navigation Collaborative, or NEOPNC, which was originally established in 2011 to promote patient navigation in the region, is aligning its efforts with The Center for Health Affairs&r ...
read moreDecember 19, 2014 (Cleveland)The number of Northeast Ohio emergency department visits increased in the third quarter of 2014, according to The Center for Health Affairs’ latest Key Indicators Report. Though the 5.16 percent increase ...
read moreDecember 15, 2014 (Cleveland)In September 2014, the academic partners of NEONI, The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, were surveyed in order to gain insight into the non-acute care settings utilized for nursing student clinic ...
read moreDecember 04, 2014 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' November Issue Brief on Hospital Price Transparency was featured in a HealthLeaders Media piece on demands for price transparency.
In the piece, " ...
read moreNovember 26, 2014 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was interviewed by ideastream's Anne Glausser for a piece on transparent pricing for medical services.
In addition t ...
read moreNovember 19, 2014 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business healthcare blog post on Medicaid reauthorization by Timothy Magaw.
In the h ...
read moreNovember 13, 2014 (Cleveland)With 2014 Marketplace open enrollment just days away, The Center for Health Affairs has put together a collection of resources from around the region to provide consumers with the information they need to get c ...
read moreNovember 05, 2014 (Cleveland)A new educational piece released by the Northeast Ohio Outreach and Enrollment Council aims to shed light on insurance options for Northeast Ohioans just in time for the Marketplace open enrollment period, whic ...
read moreOctober 31, 2014 (Cleveland)In its latest issue, the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development published “Closing the Practice Gap,” an article highlighting NEONI’s work that began in 2007 to ensure new nurse gradua ...
read moreOctober 20, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative hosted the 2014 NEONI Fall Conference, “Nursing’s Future – The Workforce, The Expectations & The Technology,” Friday, Oct. ...
read moreOctober 13, 2014 (Cleveland)
On Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, The Northeast Ohio Patient Navigation Collaborative (NEOPNC), in conjunction with The Center for Health Affairs and the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio (AMCNO) conv ...
read moreOctober 08, 2014 (Cleveland, Ohio)Unveiled at the Sept. 18 board meeting, The Center for Health Affairs’ new Strategic Direction Scorecard conservatively estimates member hospital ROI on membership dues at 12.5. In oth ...
read moreOctober 01, 2014 (Cleveland)On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' Director of Healthcare Workforce and NEONI Operations Pam Waite shared thoughts with Crain's Cleveland Business regarding the transition-to- ...
read moreSeptember 30, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs, together with the Lake County General Health District, enlisted the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio and researchers from the University of Toledo to conduct a community health ...
read moreSeptember 28, 2014 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan shared thoughts with Crain's Cleveland Business regarding the expected Medicaid expansion fight in Northeast Ohio. ...
read moreSeptember 25, 2014 (Cleveland)Rita Spirko, MSN, RN, was recently hired as the new director of NEONI’s Practice, Education, Research and Quality/Safety (PERQS) Center which provides unique opportunities to harness nursing excellence. I ...
read moreSeptember 14, 2014 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece on Medicare's "midnight rule."
In the piece, "Hospitals hoping time runs o ...
read moreSeptember 05, 2014 (Cleveland)On Sept. 4 The Center for Health Affairs was joined by Rep. Mike Dovilla (R-Berea), Rep. Nicholas Celebrezze (D-Parma), Rep. Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) and Sen. Larry Obhof (R-Medina) at University Hospitals C ...
read moreSeptember 02, 2014 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' Vice President of Member Services Lisa Anderson, MSN, RN was featured in an Around Cleveland segment on summer coming to a close.
In the Around Cle ...
read moreSeptember 02, 2014 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs is proud to announce its recognition by ERC as one of the NorthCoast 99 Award winners. This prestigious award honors Northeast Ohio’s best places to work for top talent. This ...
read moreSeptember 01, 2014 (Cleveland)On Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan shared thoughts with the Akron Beacon Journal regarding changes to be expected following the announced Akron ...
read moreAugust 27, 2014 (Cleveland)With so many changes on the horizon in the healthcare industry, it is more important than ever to stay abreast of the latest healthcare developments that matter to Northeast Ohio. Because there are so many orga ...
read moreAugust 25, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, are in the process of rolling out ACEMAPP Passport, a component of NEONI’s online nursing clinical placement and matching program which p ...
read moreAugust 11, 2014 (Cleveland)On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan addressed the theory that increased consumerism could help control health care costs in a Plain Dealer guest column entitled ...
read moreJuly 28, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has been awarded $876,521 in hospital emergency preparedness funds through the Ohio Department of Health and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the divis ...
read moreJuly 10, 2014 (Cleveland)Over the last decade skilled nursing facility days and discharges have seen a steep decline. A variety of factors, such as regulatory changes, shifts in patient preferences and operational adjustments to promot ...
read moreJune 27, 2014 (Cleveland, Ohio) The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, invited members to the NEONI Summer Soiree to kick off summer with good friends and delicious food. The soiree was held on The Center for ...
read moreJune 26, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has been conducting case study meetings to gain a deeper understanding of Northeast Ohio hospital community health initiatives. These meetings have confirmed the vast array of com ...
read moreJune 24, 2014 (Cleveland)Since 2003, The Center for Health Affairs has been supporting its emergency preparedness initiative by enhancing emergency preparedness planning in the region to increase individual and regional hospital prepar ...
read moreJune 23, 2014 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, May 28, Bill Ryan, president and CEO, and Tony Gutowski, public policy development manager, met with Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley. The meeting, which was requested by The Center f ...
read moreJune 20, 2014 (Cleveland)For more than a decade, NEONI’s Healthcare Career Shadowing Program has been providing job shadowing opportunities to Northeast Ohio high school students who are interested in pursuing a career in healthc ...
read moreJune 18, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ patient navigation pilot program at Lakewood Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital, was the focus of “The Navigator in the Community Acute Care Hospital” poster ...
read moreJune 16, 2014 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs is proud to announce that it has been selected as one of The Plain Dealer’s Top Workplaces, the fifth annual list of the 100 best places to work in Northeast Ohio.
“We ...
read moreJune 09, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs, through its Foundation for Health Excellence, announced today that it will award $1 million in grant funding to support the capital and operating needs of Care Alliance’s Ce ...
read moreJune 06, 2014 (Cleveland)On Friday, June 6, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece by Timothy Magaw. The piece focused on Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove ...
read moreMay 29, 2014 (Cleveland)As part of The Center's strategic direction to build a strong healthcare workforce, The Center for Health Affairs has initiated the development of an HR networking group, or the Northeast Ohio Healthcare HR For ...
read moreMay 22, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, recently exhibited at the 2014 Ohio Public Health Conference to promote prep2practice™, its newly developed online tool.
The Ohio Publ ...
read moreMay 12, 2014 (Cleveland)On Monday, May 12, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece on the MetroHealth campus overhaul.
In the piece, "MetroHealth is takin ...
read moreMay 08, 2014 (Cleveland, Ohio)The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI celebrate National Nurses Week May 6 - May 12. The purpose of National Nurses Week is to raise awareness of the important role nurses play ...
read moreApril 29, 2014 (Cleveland)For most people, the reasons behind hospital tax-exempt status are clear. Yet, for the last several years a small, vocal contingent that includes a variety of interested parties – from legislators to teac ...
read moreApril 29, 2014 (Cleveland)Members of The Center for Health Affairs’ workforce initiative, NEONI, recently presented a nursing poster presentation at Kent State University’s “Driving the Future” conference. ...
read moreApril 28, 2014 (Cleveland)The most recent Key Indicators Report showed outpatient surgery cases have grown substantially while total discharges, total days, emergency cases as well as several other indicators closed the fourth quarter w ...
read moreApril 25, 2014 (Cleveland)The Behavioral Health RoundTable of Cuyahoga County has been actively working to address the region’s behavioral health needs in 2014. Work being conducted by the RoundTable includes the following:
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read moreApril 23, 2014 (Cleveland)The need for public health practicums and capstone experiences is continuously growing in Ohio and throughout the country. In order to support the increased demand for available experiences, grant-funding has b ...
read moreApril 14, 2014 (Cleveland)Reimbursement Forum members were presented with the preliminary fiscal year (FY) 2015 wage index results at their March 20 meeting where they learned that Northeast Ohio hospitals can expect $7.1 million in add ...
read moreApril 11, 2014 (Cleveland)On Friday, Apr. 11, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Plain Dealer piece on Medicare billing data.
In the piece, "What the new Medicare billing data show (an ...
read moreMarch 27, 2014 (Cleveland)With open enrollment on the Marketplace quickly nearing its March 31 deadline, The Center for Health Affairs recently provided support to the Carmella Rose Health Foundation to promote public awareness about th ...
read moreMarch 27, 2014 (Cleveland)This month The Center for Health Affairs distributed welcome packets to federal, state and local elected officials who represent various areas throughout Northeast Ohio. The purpose of these packets is to intro ...
read moreMarch 17, 2014 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, recently generated its ACEMAPP Annual Reports to provide hospital and nursing education program’s customized nursing clinical placem ...
read moreMarch 14, 2014 (Cleveland)Pam Waite, director of healthcare workforce and NEONI operations for The Center for Health Affairs, and Tracy Plouck, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OHMAS), gave presen ...
read moreMarch 11, 2014 (Cleveland)With the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance is now required by law. Many Americans who are currently uninsured or underinsured can shop for health insurance through the Health Ins ...
read moreFebruary 24, 2014 (Cleveland)The most recent Key Indicators Report showed a 19 percent increase in hospital observation services in the third quarter of 2013. According to the report, recent news stories have highlighted hospital patients ...
read moreFebruary 21, 2014 (Cleveland)As part of its social media strategy, The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to announce the official launch of its healthcare Pinterest boards. Pinterest is a bulletin board style website that allows users t ...
read moreFebruary 17, 2014 (Cleveland)Almost nine out of ten respondents to The Center for Health Affairs latest member satisfaction survey agreed that the association provides very important services to the hospital community. The majority of surv ...
read moreJanuary 29, 2014 (Cleveland)When harsh winter weather hits Northeast Ohio, area hospitals oftentimes rely on The Center’s Emergency Preparedness team to respond to resource requests and provide critical weather and sheltering inform ...
read moreJanuary 13, 2014 (Cleveland)For many years, CHAMPS Healthcare, the business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, has used a portion of its revenues to help support the nonprofit work of the association. Thanks to a substantial dona ...
read moreJanuary 10, 2014 (Cleveland, Ohio)On Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece in which some of the region’s leaders were asked to weigh in ...
read moreDecember 17, 2013 (Cleveland)Members of The Center’s Advocacy Forum met on Dec. 9 to discuss the new enrollment process for Medicaid in Ohio. This extended group included Joe Gauntner from the Cuyahoga County office of Job and Family ...
read moreDecember 10, 2013 (Cleveland)On Friday, Dec. 6 The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, hosted its 12th Annual Fall Conference to discuss quality and safety in nursing practice.
About 90 people attended the half-day confe ...
read moreDecember 09, 2013 (Cleveland)On Nov. 6, the Volume Statistics Advisory Committee met to review the program and discuss possible definition changes and enhancements. The committee, composed of representatives from member hospitals who are f ...
read moreDecember 06, 2013 (Cleveland)In an effort to maximize reimbursement for its member hospitals, The Center for Health Affairs has once again contracted with the Reimbursement Alliance (RA) Group to conduct a wage index analysis of Northeast ...
read moreDecember 04, 2013 (Cleveland)The Dec. 2-8, 2013 print edition of Crain's Cleveland Business features data from The Center's most recent issue brief, which discusses growing emergency department visits and utilization. Crain's spe ...
read moreNovember 21, 2013 (Cleveland)Starting in the 1970s, the average length of stay for newborns after delivery began declining. In Northeast Ohio and across the country, mothers and their newborns used to stay in the hospital for over four day ...
read moreNovember 19, 2013 (Cleveland)Since its kickoff in October, NEONI’s 2013 - 2014 Healthcare Career Shadowing Program has assigned 168 students from 32 high schools to shadowing experiences in nine different hospitals. The high school s ...
read moreNovember 13, 2013 (Cleveland)This fall The Center’s Emergency Preparedness team has conducted 27 site visits to Northeast Ohio hospitals that receive Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) funding, with four visits ...
read moreNovember 08, 2013 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Nov. 6 Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management released a compilation of Health Insurance Marketplace net premium rates for all competitors in Cuyahoga County for ...
read moreNovember 05, 2013 (Cleveland)Through a recent survey spearheaded by The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, nursing simulation resources have been identified for future simulation planning and prog ...
read moreOctober 28, 2013 (Cleveland)On Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece on the rise in high-deductible plans and hospitals' concerns that they ...
read moreOctober 24, 2013 (Cleveland)NEONI's 2013 Legislative Forum, “Passageways and Obstacles: Ohio’s Story of Health Transformation,” held at Southwest General Health Center’s Williams Conference Center Oct. 21, provided ...
read moreOctober 23, 2013 (Cleveland)On Friday, October 11, 2013, The Northeast Ohio Patient Navigation Collaborative, in conjunction with The Center for Health Affairs and the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio convened a panel to ...
read moreOctober 22, 2013 (Cleveland)Late yesterday the State of Ohio Controlling Board voted by a 5 to 2 majority to take advantage of federal money to expand Medicaid to approximately 275,000 low-income Ohioans with coverage slated to begin Janu ...
read moreOctober 16, 2013 (Cleveland)Just days before the pivotal State of Ohio Controlling Board vote, The Center for Health Affairs and dozens of representatives from Northeast Ohio advocacy organizations gathered in Columbus to ask lawmakers to ...
read moreOctober 10, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs recognizes the importance of the Health and Human Services in the region and as a result has endorsed Cuyahoga County Issue 1, which will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot. Supported by ...
read moreSeptember 25, 2013 (Cleveland)A number of Northeast Ohio’s nursing schools and hospitals enjoyed a more efficient nursing student onboarding process this fall thanks to NEONI’s ACEMAPP Passport program.
Each year, schools and ho ...
read moreSeptember 24, 2013 (Cleveland)For several months, planning has been underway to establish The Center’s strategic direction for 2014 through 2016. The plan, presented to The Center for Health Affairs board on Sept. 19, was approved and ...
read moreSeptember 04, 2013 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, September 4, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece on the Cleveland Clinic partnership with Community Health&n ...
read moreAugust 28, 2013 (Cleveland)As medical care has grown more complex, and rates of chronic illness have risen, patients increasingly need someone to help guide them along the healthcare continuum to ensure they receive timely, high-quality ...
read moreAugust 27, 2013 (Cleveland)Though Northeast Ohio hospital volume was down overall for the first quarter of 2013, January showed increases for several indicators, according to the latest Key Indicators Report. Emergency department volume ...
read moreAugust 23, 2013 (Cleveland)NEONI’s Vice President Lisa Anderson, MSN, RN, with consultants, Craig Moore, Ph.D. and Cypress Research Group, recently developed the Louisiana Multi-Regional Statewide Nursing Forecast Model, a unique a ...
read moreAugust 21, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has been awarded $1.38 million in hospital emergency preparedness funds through the Ohio Department of Health and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the ...
read moreJuly 30, 2013 (Cleveland)Planning is now underway for The Center’s three-year strategic direction that will serve as a blueprint for the association’s work from 2014 -2016.
Like the three-year strategic direction in place f ...
read moreJuly 29, 2013 (Cleveland)On Monday, July 29, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs released an online presentation to explain the process of expanding Medicaid in Ohio. This tool was created to clarify the complex legislative process the ...
read moreJuly 26, 2013 (Cleveland)Columbine. Virginia Tech. Chardon. Sandy Hook. What comes to mind at the mention of these schools? For most people the mere mention of these schools doesn’t evoke thoughts of education, but of horrific cr ...
read moreJuly 23, 2013 (Cleveland)Over the course of the past month, The Center has been holding one-on-one meetings with Cleveland City Council members to discuss its publications and advocacy efforts in Northeast Ohio. Led by Tony Gutowski, p ...
read moreJuly 22, 2013 (Cleveland)On Saturday, July 20, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in an Akron Beacon Journal piece on the Akron General partner search by Cheryl Powell. In the piece, "Akron ...
read moreJune 26, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center’s most recent publication, Childhood Obesity: Weighing in on a Generation at Risk, has been released in conjunction with the launch of a new section of The Center’s website devoted to hea ...
read moreJune 25, 2013 (Cleveland)In an effort to reach future healthcare workers, The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, participated in a healthcare career awareness event at the Cleveland Convention Center grand opening S ...
read moreJune 21, 2013 (Cleveland)Since 2002 the NEONI Healthcare Career Shadowing Program has been providing high school students with the opportunity to spend one day job shadowing in a real-life healthcare workplace environment to learn firs ...
read moreJune 20, 2013 (Cleveland)The fourth quarter of 2012 showed increases in volume for several indicators in comparison to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the latest Key Indicators Report. Overall, patient days and discharges were ...
read moreJune 19, 2013 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, June 19, Tony Gutowski, public policy development manager, joined the Northeast Ohio Medicaid Expansion Coalition (NEO-MEC) at the Statehouse in Columbus to meet with legislators as final changes ...
read moreJune 05, 2013 (Cleveland)On Monday, June 3, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece on Catholic Health Partners' acquisition of Kaiser Permanente's Ohi ...
read moreMay 30, 2013 (Cleveland)Behavioral health leaders from both the public and private sectors across Northeast Ohio met recently to discuss the potential formation of a public-private collaboration.
At the inaugural meeting, held at No ...
read moreMay 29, 2013 (Cleveland)On Thursday, May 8, The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, facilitated a virtual active shooter training table-top exercise for 30 healthcare facilities located throug ...
read moreMay 28, 2013 (Cleveland)Since Governor Kasich released his biennium budget in February, The Center has been engaging Ohio legislators in an effort to gauge their support for reforming the current Medicaid program. During the past few ...
read moreMay 24, 2013 (Cleveland)Since the founding of our nation, people have been coming to the United States from all corners of the world. Some have come seeking employment, others to obtain advanced degrees and still others have come to e ...
read moreMay 22, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs participated in a discussion about Medicaid reform with Cleveland City Council and advocates from the Northeast Ohio healthcare community on Thursday, May 17. Tony Gutowski, public ...
read moreApril 30, 2013 (Cleveland)Cuyahoga County hospitals and community service organizations now have access to a wealth of current information about their county’s health needs. On Tuesday, April 30, nearly 100 people gathered at an e ...
read moreApril 29, 2013 (Cleveland)In Northeast Ohio, close to 40 percent of payments hospitals receive come from the Medicare program, making Medicare reimbursement a key component of hospitals’ bottom lines. A crucial factor in determini ...
read moreApril 29, 2013 (Cleveland)On the evening of April 25, The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, celebrated nursing excellence by hosting an event at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven, in Mayfield Heights, to recognize n ...
read moreApril 23, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ emergency preparedness team recently made a $150,000 investment in two oxygen generators for Northeast Ohio regional hospitals. This purchase helps member hospitals meet one ...
read moreApril 17, 2013 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' Director of Emergency Preparedness Beth Gatlin was interviewed by News Channel 5 on the emergency preparedness of Northeast Ohio hospitals. In the ...
read moreApril 16, 2013 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan responded to a letter sent from Representative Mike Dovilla to a constituent explaining his opposition to Medicai ...
read moreApril 15, 2013 (Cleveland)In March The Center for Health Affairs distributed healthcare education packets to state and federal lawmakers to introduce and/or reacquaint them to Northeast Ohio’s most important health policy topics. ...
read moreApril 10, 2013 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Plain Dealer piece on Medicaid expansion and the state budget by Robert Higgs with Sarah Jane Tribble. ...
read moreApril 08, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs has just released its Medicaid extension FAQ to address the abundance of questions repeatedly emphasized by Ohio policymakers. The brochure summarizes the impact extending the stat ...
read moreApril 01, 2013 (Olmsted Falls)Ordinance urges Ohio lawmakers to extend coverage to uninsured
The City of Olmsted Falls adopted resolution number 22-2013 on Monday, March 12th, urging Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly to expand ...
read moreApril 01, 2013 (Cleveland)Ordinance urges Ohio lawmakers to extend coverage to uninsured
The City of Cleveland issued resolution number 427-13 on Monday, March 25th urging Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly to include Medicai ...
read moreMarch 27, 2013 (Cleveland)Reimbursement Forum members were presented with the FY 2014 wage index results at their March 21 meeting where they learned that Northeast Ohio hospitals can expect $10.4 million in additional reimbursement tha ...
read moreMarch 26, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center’s March 2013 issue brief, Healthcare at the End of Life: A Look at Current Trends, takes a look at EOL healthcare trends, including the use of palliative and hospice care, advance directives an ...
read moreMarch 22, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs provided supplemental data for a January 2013 report entitled, The Economic Impact of MetroHealth System. Along with providing information for the report, The Center's President an ...
read moreMarch 20, 2013 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, April 30, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Scott Auditorium at MetroHealth Medical Center, The Center for Health Affairs will release the results of its county-wide health needs survey at Cu ...
read moreMarch 18, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs’ contact your legislator webpage has recently been updated and aims to make communication with lawmakers easier. Visitors will find contact information and direct links ...
read moreMarch 18, 2013 (Cleveland)Medicaid Expansion advocacy efforts at The Center have targeted Northeast Ohio lawmakers in the last several weeks. In collaboration with spokespersons from member hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, Uni ...
read moreMarch 14, 2013 (Cleveland)ACEMAPP annual reports, generated by The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative NEONI, were distributed to hospitals and nursing education programs earlier this month. Each annual report summari ...
read moreMarch 04, 2013 (Cleveland)On Monday, March 4, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's Cleveland Business piece by Timothy Magaw on the recently announced Summa Partnership with ...
read moreFebruary 27, 2013 (Cleveland)February’s policy snapshot, Dear Lawmaker: Top Considerations from the Northeast Ohio Healthcare Community for 2013, outlines The Center’s central health policy priorities. Part two of this two-part ...
read moreFebruary 25, 2013 (Cleveland)On the evening of April 25, The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, will celebrate nursing excellence and recognize Northeast Ohio nursing leaders and supporting partners, at Executiv ...
read moreFebruary 20, 2013 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs applauds Governor Kasich’s call to support Medicaid expansion, highlighted during his State of the State address last night. As the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospit ...
read moreFebruary 11, 2013 (Cleveland)Northeast Ohio Medicaid Expansion Coalition (NEO-MEC) members lobbied at the statehouse on Jan. 29 with one message: support Medicaid expansion for Ohio. The group, composed of a wide range of community organiz ...
read moreFebruary 04, 2013 (Cleveland)On Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan addressed the issue of Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) in a Plain Dealer guest column on PILOT fees ent ...
read moreJanuary 30, 2013 (Cleveland)As we draw closer to full implementation of healthcare reform, uncertainty and skepticism remain about unanswered questions and the changes to come. January’s policy snapshot, Dear Lawmaker: Top Considera ...
read moreJanuary 28, 2013 (Cleveland)Northeast Ohio hospitals are enjoying outpatient volume growth once again, according to the Third Quarter 2012 Key Indicators Report. Data from the last few quarters make it clear that the declining volume witn ...
read moreJanuary 17, 2013 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Jan. 17 NEONI landed its first contract with the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. NEONI will utilize its Nursing Forecaster, a dynamic tool used to predict the future nursing supply and demand for ...
read moreJanuary 14, 2013 (Cleveland)On Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Plain Dealer Medicaid Piece written by Sarah Tribble.
In the piece Ryan comments on a new rep ...
read moreJanuary 10, 2013 (Cleveland)Work is underway to establish NEONI’s Center for Practice, Education, Research, Quality and Safety (PERQS), a collaborative part of The Center for Health Affairs’ three-year strategic direction to h ...
read moreJanuary 09, 2013 (Cleveland)On Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in the Crain's Healthcare section in a special "Economic Outlook 2013" piece by Timothy Magaw. The piece ...
read moreJanuary 03, 2013 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, The Center for Health Affairs' December 2012 Issue Brief was highlighted in a FierceHealthcare patient navigation piece by Karen Cheung-Larivee. The piece cit ...
read moreDecember 20, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center’s latest publication, an issue brief entitled, The Emerging Field of Patient Navigation: A Golden Opportunity to Improve Healthcare, shines the spotlight on the growing field of patient navigat ...
read moreDecember 18, 2012 (Cleveland)On Dec. 4, members of the Northeast Ohio Medicaid Expansion Coalition (NEOMEC) traveled to Columbus to advocate for a full Medicaid expansion in Ohio. The group, composed of a wide range of community orga ...
read moreDecember 11, 2012 (Cleveland)On Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, The Center for Health Affairs' April 2009 Policy Snapshot was cited in a Huffington Post wellness piece by Tory Zellick. The piece cites The Center's research on compani ...
read moreNovember 29, 2012 (Cleveland)Our November policy snapshot, Medicaid: Why Expanding Coverage Makes Sense, provides context for the issues surrounding the state’s potential Medicaid expansion and why the state’s decision is so im ...
read moreNovember 28, 2012 (Cleveland)With data collection wrapping up in Cuyahoga County, The Center’s initiative to conduct community health needs assessments (CHNAs) in its members’ counties is nearly complete. Similar to the project ...
read moreNovember 27, 2012 (Cleveland)On Nov. 15, members of The Center for Health Affairs Reimbursement Forum had the opportunity to hear two educational speakers from McGladrey, LLP, a national consulting firm with expertise in healthcare, at the ...
read moreNovember 19, 2012 (Cleveland)Community initiatives provide an opportunity for The Center for Health Affairs to showcase Northeast Ohio hospitals’ commitment to area residents as well as to educate community members on key health poli ...
read moreNovember 19, 2012 (Cleveland)During Superstorm Sandy, The Center for Health Affairs’ Emergency Preparedness Team was hard at work in an effort to ensure member hospitals had a go-to resource for the latest information on county ...
read moreNovember 16, 2012 (Akron)Catherine S. Koppelman, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, the system chief nursing officer at University Hospitals and the chief nursing officer for University Hospitals Case Medical Center presented to nearly 65 attendees at N ...
read moreNovember 07, 2012 (Cleveland)On Oct. 22, the Northeast Ohio Medicaid Expansion Coalition (NEOMEC) met with Greg Moody, director of the Ohio Office of Health Transformation, to present the group’s common goal of expanding Ohio’s ...
read moreNovember 05, 2012 (Cleveland)On Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Crain's article on MetroHealth System's search for a new CEO. The piece quoted Ryan as saying, ...
read moreOctober 31, 2012 (Cleveland)On October 12, 2012, The Center for Health Affairs and The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio hosted “Leading the Way: A Panel Discussion on the Value of Patient Navigation” at South ...
read moreOctober 29, 2012 (Cleveland)Since its kickoff on Oct. 9, the NEONI 2012 – 2013 Healthcare Career Shadowing Program has assigned 500 students to shadowing experiences in 17 different hospitals ― a number that has already exceeded the ...
read moreOctober 29, 2012 (Cleveland)Healthcare advocates, providers, universities and other organizations throughout Ohio attended the 2012 Ohio Health Literacy Conference on Oct. 26 at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel. More than 100 people attend ...
read moreOctober 26, 2012 (Cleveland)When you think of great communicators, which names come to mind first? Is it someone famous, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan or Oprah? Maybe it’s a colleague who always seems to say the rig ...
read moreOctober 25, 2012 (Cleveland)The latest Key Indicators Report, which reflects data from the second quarter, focuses on several emerging trends regarding psychiatric and chemical dependency volume.
First, as seen in previous quarter ...
read moreOctober 24, 2012 (Cleveland)This August, CHAMPS Oncology signed a new contract with Indiana University Health, located in Indianapolis, to provide consulting services to enhance the health system’s cancer registry. CHAMPS Oncol ...
read moreOctober 22, 2012 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, is pleased to sponsor the Content Marketing World Health Summit, hosted by MEDCITYNEWS.COM on November 7th and 8th at the Cleve ...
read moreOctober 15, 2012 (Cleveland)On Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was was quoted in a Crain's article on Akron General's recent investments in doctors and wellness efforts. The ...
read moreOctober 09, 2012 (Cleveland)On Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, The Center for Health Affairs was was highlighted in a Plain Dealer article on a successful year-long patient navigation pilot program at MetroHealth Medical Center’s C ...
read moreOctober 08, 2012 (Cleveland)In an effort to maximize reimbursement for its member hospitals, The Center for Health Affairs has once again contracted with the Reimbursement Alliance (RA) Group to conduct a wage index analysis of Northeast ...
read moreSeptember 27, 2012 (Cleveland)The healthcare field is filled with complex medical terms. Beyond understanding the terminology, navigating the healthcare system can be incredibly complicated, especially for anyone with a chronic medical cond ...
read moreSeptember 25, 2012 (Cleveland)Initially launched in July 2011 to Northeast Ohio hospitals, NEONI’s Nursing Workforce Forecast Model is on the verge of significant growth. Following a presentation by Lisa Anderson, vice president of me ...
read moreSeptember 20, 2012 (Cleveland)Members of the Behavioral Health RoundTable, a collaborative group of behavioral health professionals spearheaded by The Center for Health Affairs, know all too well that handling behavioral health cases in the ...
read moreSeptember 17, 2012 (Cleveland)On Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, The Center for Health Affairs was was highlighted in a Ragan health reform piece featured in their health care communicator news feed. The piece featured The Center as a res ...
read moreSeptember 17, 2012 (Cleveland)Healthcare advocates and providers joined representatives from Northeast Ohio legislative offices on Sept. 14 to network and hear from experts on the current healthcare environment. Approximately 100 people att ...
read moreSeptember 14, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs is pleased to report that in the three months since their Ohio HealthCare Federal Credit Union Collaborative was announced, the Columbus-based credit union has added 27 members fro ...
read moreSeptember 11, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs is proud to announce its recognition by ERC as one of Northeast Ohio’s best places to work for top talent. This prestigious award honors and recognizes the top 99 workpl ...
read moreSeptember 07, 2012 (Cleveland)On Friday, September 7, 2012, The Center's President and CEO, Bill Ryan, was quoted in a Plain Dealer piece on the topic of readmission penalties for Cleveland hospitals saying the rise in penalties, "is a warn ...
read moreSeptember 05, 2012 (Cleveland)Recent media attention in Crain's Cleveland Business, which details the drug shortage and Northeast Ohio hospitals' resulting challenges, points to a growing awareness of the problem within the community. The a ...
read moreAugust 29, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center’s latest issue brief, entitled Health Insurance Exchanges: Building an Insurance Marketplace in the Midst of Uncertainty, takes a look at exchanges, or insurance marketplaces where individuals ...
read moreAugust 28, 2012 (Cleveland)Thirty-day hospital readmission rates for heart failure patients are better in Northeast Ohio than they are in the U.S. and Ohio among the ten hospitals, all members of Better Health Greater Cleveland, particip ...
read moreAugust 20, 2012 (Cleveland)Lorain County hospitals and community organizations now have access to a wealth of current information about their county’s health needs. On Aug. 1, Lorain County held a public event at the Lorain Co ...
read moreAugust 15, 2012 (Cleveland)Did you catch The City Club of Cleveland’s August 10th panel discussion on the hot topic of federal healthcare reform? Panelists included The Center's President and CEO Bill Ryan; John Begala, executive d ...
read moreAugust 13, 2012 (Cleveland)More than 50 NEONI members gathered in Shaker Heights on Aug. 9, at the home of NEONI member, Diane Wish, RN, MBA, president & CEO of Centers for Dialysis Care. Hors d'oeuvres were served throughout th ...
read moreAugust 06, 2012 (Cleveland)Did you know that one out of every four people in Cuyahoga County reads at or below a fifth grade level? A lack of basic literacy skills contributes to problems understanding health information, but even those ...
read moreJuly 25, 2012 (Cleveland)
By now the dust has started to settle on the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While it can be hard to navigate the legal jargon, the S ...
read moreJuly 24, 2012 (Cleveland)A recent survey of The Center’s members reveals that the highly-publicized national pharmaceutical shortages are more than just theoretical and that the challenges associated with this issue are hitting c ...
read moreJuly 19, 2012 (Cleveland)On September 14, 2012, hospital administrators, nursing students and other interested stakeholders will have the opportunity to learn more about today’s healthcare policy environment from Greg Moody, Dire ...
read moreJuly 17, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs was awarded $1.4 million in hospital emergency preparedness funding through the Ohio Department of Health and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the divi ...
read moreJuly 05, 2012 (Cleveland)NEONI’s Vice President Lisa Anderson, RN, MSN, BSN, and Cypress Research Group’s President Patricia J. Cirillo, Ph.D., were chosen to present NEONI’s Nursing Forecast Model, a tool developed t ...
read moreJuly 02, 2012 (Cleveland)On Monday, July 2, 2012, The Center's President and CEO, Bill Ryan, was quoted in a Plain Dealer piece on the topic of Medicaid expansion in Ohio saying, "his members are 'supportive of anything that gets insur ...
read moreJune 29, 2012 (Cleveland)President and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, Bill Ryan, wrote a letter to the editor in response to the series on medical billing published by The Plain Dealer on Sunday, June 24, 2012.
The letter, publ ...
read moreJune 29, 2012 (Cleveland)We have probably all witnessed the healing properties of an antibiotic that cures a pesky infection at some point in our lives. But what happens to a patient when the medicine that has been successfully holding ...
read moreJune 28, 2012 (Cleveland)On Thursday, June 28, 2012, The Center's CEO, Bill Ryan, weighed in on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act on WKYC's @ The Table Segment. Click below to watch Ryan discuss the decisio ...
read moreJune 25, 2012 (Cleveland)Northeast Ohio hospitals once again experienced overall declining volume in the first quarter of 2012, according to the latest Key Indicators Report, a trend, which, in the past, has largely been attributed to ...
read moreJune 18, 2012 (Cleveland)A small group of nearly 40 key stakeholders across various healthcare settings came together once again to continue the momentum of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiat ...
read moreJune 14, 2012 (Cleveland)On Thursday, June 14, 2012, the NEONI Steering Committee and Greater Cleveland Organization of Nurse Executives (GCONE) hosted a presentation on The Legal Pitfalls of "Friending" Social Media in Healthcare. The ...
read moreJune 11, 2012 (Cleveland)In 2002, The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, launched a Healthcare Career Shadowing Program for high school students to learn first-hand about local healthcare career opportunities and jo ...
read moreJune 04, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs Announces Partnership with Healthcare Credit Union
Contact: Deanna Moore, The Center for Health Affairs
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read moreJune 04, 2012 (Cleveland)Contact: Deanna Moore, The Center for Health Affairs
deanna.moore@chanet.org or 216.255.36 ...
read moreMay 29, 2012 (Cleveland)Patient experience is an area of focus that has become increasingly important to hospital leaders in recent years. A growing number of studies have linked a patient’s experience not just to their overall ...
read moreMay 22, 2012 (Cleveland)The Practice-Gap Pilot Project, Mentoring the Next Generation of Nurses for Professional Practice, continues to move along. Over the next few weeks, 10 of the 20 nurse preceptors from four hospitals including M ...
read moreMay 15, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, are proud to introduce their new online clinical placement system, ACE-Ohio. This new system, offered to the entire state of Ohio through NEONI ...
read moreMay 08, 2012 (Cleveland)Healthcare employers that have struggled with employees who claim unemployment while not seeking work, or with PRN employees simultaneously receiving unemployment and restricting the hours they work, received s ...
read moreApril 26, 2012 (Cleveland)Does the thought of an upcoming trip to the dentist strike fear in your heart? While many people fear dental work, the consequences of not visiting the dentist are scarier. Almost half of Ohio adults have had o ...
read moreApril 24, 2012 (Cleveland)Ashtabula and Geauga county hospitals and community service organizations now have access to a wealth of current information about their counties’ health needs. On Wednesday, April 18, both counties ...
read moreApril 18, 2012 (Cleveland)Under The Center for Health Affairs’ most recent request, the region would receive $1.43 million in federal emergency preparedness funding during the upcoming year. The grant application, which was submit ...
read moreApril 16, 2012 (Cleveland)The trend of declining volume continued in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the latest Key Indicators Report, which suggests that a still-lagging economy is likely to blame. Total patient discharge ...
read moreApril 09, 2012 (Cleveland)The Hospital Quality Network (HQN), a nationwide project that falls under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative aimed at reducing re-hospitalizations for heart f ...
read moreMarch 29, 2012 (Cleveland)There are many factors that play a role in how hospitals deliver care. Just as in other industries, hospital leaders must understand the marketplace and adjust to its changes in order to carry out their m ...
read moreMarch 28, 2012 (Cleveland)Northeast Ohio hospitals can expect just over $10 million in additional reimbursement thanks to The Center’s Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2013 wage index project. For months, The Center for Health Affai ...
read moreMarch 26, 2012 (Cleveland)In the eyes of a patient, especially one with a chronic or complex illness, the healthcare system can feel overwhelming. Compound the inherent complexities of the system with a variety of barriers patients can ...
read moreMarch 20, 2012 (Cleveland)Exit interviews with departing employees are often conducted in a perfunctory, haphazard manner. But, an employee’s last words can provide valuable insights into hospital culture, dysfunction and opportun ...
read moreMarch 16, 2012 (Cleveland)The focus on patient-centered care and value-based purchasing has had an impact on cancer programs as well as the hospitals they reside in. Cancer programs across the country are increasingly realizing an oppor ...
read moreMarch 07, 2012 (Cleveland)On February 13, Ohio Department of Mental Health Director Tracy Plouck and her staff met with the Behavioral Health RoundTable of Cuyahoga County at The Center for Health Affairs to discuss the framework for a ...
read moreMarch 05, 2012 (Cleveland)The Board of Trustees for The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, has formally endorsed Issue 15, the Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services levy.
The levy, which a ...
read moreFebruary 27, 2012 (Cleveland)Changes may be on the horizon for Medicare wage index. After years of rumblings about the numerous inconsistencies and exceptions that occur with wage index each year, the Secretary of Health and Human Ser ...
read moreFebruary 23, 2012 (Cleveland)In late January, Northeast Ohio hosted a visit from Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) for the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. As the principal adviso ...
read moreFebruary 20, 2012 (Cleveland)In early March, StudentMAX™ annual reports, generated by The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative NEONI, will be distributed to hospitals and nursing education programs, summarizing for ...
read moreFebruary 16, 2012 (Cleveland)The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare are proud to be presenting sponsors for the 2012 Ohio Health Literacy Conference Series. These events are designed as a forum for relevant discussio ...
read moreFebruary 13, 2012 (Cleveland)The election season is in full swing and unless you’ve joined the bears in hibernation you’ve probably caught some coverage of the Republican candidates vying for their party’s nomination. Tea ...
read moreFebruary 09, 2012 (Cleveland)On Thursday, Feb. 9, the Transitions of Care Committee (TOCC) met at MetroHealth Medical Center.
The Center's Project Manager, Linda Neiding, gave a presentation on the nine month data report for Aligning Forc ...
read moreFebruary 08, 2012 (Cleveland)Vice President of Member Services for The Center for Health Affairs, Lisa Anderson, was recently quoted in an article published by The News-Herald on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
The article, “Area nurses war ...
read moreJanuary 26, 2012 (Cleveland)Looking for a story laced with mystery, intrigue and suspense? Look no further than this year’s highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the federal healthcare reform law. With the ...
read moreJanuary 19, 2012 (Cleveland)Volume Statistics users will now have an easier time getting the information they need out of the database thanks to new functionality implemented in January. The new reporting platform allows users to se ...
read moreJanuary 16, 2012 (Cleveland)Academic partners, Lorain County Community College and Ursuline College, are now finalizing the online curriculum to help address the nursing practice gap and ensure new nurses entering the workforce are prepar ...
read moreJanuary 12, 2012 (Cleveland)Three of the counties that have undertaken a health needs assessment project coordinated by The Center for Health Affairs are close to releasing their results publically. In 2010 The Center initiated an e ...
read moreJanuary 05, 2012 (Cleveland)Northeast Ohio’s hospitals have faced overall declining volume for several quarters in a row including the third quarter of 2011, according to The Center for Health Affairs' latest Key Indicators Report, ...
read moreDecember 21, 2011 (Cleveland)In an effort to maximize reimbursement for its member hospitals, The Center for Health Affairs once again contracted with the Reimbursement Alliance Group to conduct a wage index analysis of Northeast Ohio hosp ...
read moreDecember 20, 2011 (Cleveland)Health Insurance and our mindset surrounding it have been evolving from the moment the first policy was issued. The Center’s latest issue brief entitled, Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act ...
read moreDecember 14, 2011 (Cleveland)On Wednesday, Dec. 7, more than 150 individuals representing various healthcare settings attended A Community-Based Approach to Improving Care Transitions & Reducing Rehospitalizations, held at Cuyahoga Com ...
read moreNovember 28, 2011 (Cleveland)Earlier this month, the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA), along with the Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS), issued guidance clarifying for hospitals the proper procedures for restocking ambulances with Sch ...
read moreNovember 25, 2011 Operation Rat Pack, held in mid-September, was the latest emergency preparedness exercise for hospitals and others in the Northeast Ohio region. The scenario, an outbreak of bubonic plague affecting children an ...
read moreNovember 23, 2011 (Cleveland)DATABANK recruiting efforts are underway at The Center for Health Affairs. Though many hospitals in The Center’s membership have participated in DATABANK at no charge as a benefit of membership, restructu ...
read moreNovember 22, 2011 (Cleveland)Attendees of the November meeting of The Center for Health Affairs Reimbursement Forum heard from Medicare policy experts regarding recourse available to hospitals seeking to address errors made by the Centers ...
read moreNovember 21, 2011 (Cleveland)Mary E. Kerr, PhD, RN, FAAN, the new dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve and the inaugural holder of the May L. Wykle Endowed Professorship in Nursing, presented avenues f ...
read moreNovember 09, 2011 (Cleveland)Of all the provisions in the recently enacted federal healthcare reform law, none has evoked as much controversy as the law’s minimum coverage requirement, which requires most individuals to maintain mini ...
read moreNovember 08, 2011 (Cleveland)More than 200 individuals representing various healthcare settings, including ambulatory care, acute care, home health, and long-term care, attended Transitions of Care: Improving Care Across Settings on Nov. 2 ...
read moreOctober 26, 2011 (Cleveland)The early 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, though it followed months of high-profile legislative discourse and activity, really could be considered only the beginning of a lengthy debate about the futur ...
read moreOctober 26, 2011 (Cleveland)Escaping the media storm surrounding the federal healthcare reform law would be difficult even for those who rarely open a newspaper, surf the Web, or turn on the radio. Intense partisan battles that were waged ...
read moreOctober 25, 2011 (Cleveland)
Northeast Ohio hospital data coordinators are busy gathering the necessary information to begin reporting on new indicators that are a part of The Center for Health Affairs Volume Statistics upgrade. After ...
read moreOctober 24, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, has recently launched its new Healthcare Career Shadowing users’ website, allowing students, schools and hospitals easier navigation and access to ...
read moreOctober 21, 2011 (Cleveland)Although the weather outside was dreary, the atmosphere inside was celebratory at NEONI’s Fall Season Social, which was held Oct. 12 at the beautiful Lakewood home of Ellen and John Brzytwa. Hors d'oeuvres were ...
read moreOctober 18, 2011 (Cleveland)On behalf of the hospital membership, The Center for Health Affairs testified October 3 before the Ohio House of Representatives Workforce Development Study Committee. The committee, led by Rep. Tim Derickson ( ...
read moreOctober 10, 2011 (Cleveland)
Last week The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, officially launched a Facebook presence for its workforce initiative, NEONI. The NEONI Facebook page aims to enhan ...
read moreOctober 05, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a coordinated effort to ensure that all Americans have access to high-quality healthcare, with nurses contributing to the full extent of their capabilitie ...
read moreSeptember 27, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center’s latest issue brief, Healthcare Consumerism and the Growing Importance of Patient Decision Making examines the healthcare consumerism movement and the many forms it has taken. Healthcare consume ...
read moreSeptember 26, 2011 (Cleveland)
The region has been mired in troubling economic times for well over two years now and The Center’s member hospitals are feeling its effects, according to the latest Key Indicators Report, which reflects dat ...
read moreSeptember 19, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs, BioEnterprise and Team NEO have entered into a unique collaboration aimed at attracting new businesses and jobs to Northeast Ohio.
The goal of this collaboration, whic ...
read moreSeptember 15, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP) is seeking to get the ball rolling on Northeast Ohio’s participation in the statewide health information exchange. Late last month, The Center for Heal ...
read moreSeptember 13, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initia ...
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Registration is now open for Transitions of Care – Improving Care Across Settings, an event sponsored by The Center for Health Affairs and Better Health Greater Cleveland. The conference, which is intended ...
read moreAugust 30, 2011 (Cleveland)
It has been said that it takes a lifetime to build a reputation and only seconds to destroy it. And an organization’s success – or failure – in managing a crisis can have a long-term effect on how that orga ...
read moreAugust 30, 2011 (Cleveland)
“Poison Control reporting Daconil fungicide released on crowd during air show. Anticipate influx of public with exposure. Track patients with complaints of dermal, ocular or respiratory irritation to report ...
read moreAugust 30, 2011 (Cleveland)
Primary care doctors are a cornerstone of the healthcare system. They are the first line of defense when we get sick, and they’re who we rely on to manage and coordinate our care when we have more complex h ...
read moreAugust 30, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs, and its workforce initiative NEONI, have rolled out a new fee structure for StudentMAXTM, the online program used by area hospitals and schools of nursing to manage their stud ...
read moreAugust 30, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs and Better Health Greater Cleveland will sponsor Transitions of Care - Improving Care Across Settings on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Cuyahoga Comm ...
read moreJuly 28, 2011 (Cleveland)
The 2010 Report to the Membership features an overview of the activities completed in 2010 by The Center on behalf of members, as well as a summary of the three-year strategic direction that is ste ...
read moreJuly 28, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs once again was awarded $1.5 million in emergency preparedness funding through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the division of the U.S. Department ...
read moreJuly 28, 2011 (Cleveland)As part of The Center for Health Affairs’ three-year strategic direction, The Center and its workforce initiative, NEONI, have started the development process for NEONI’s Center for Nursing Practice ...
read moreJuly 26, 2011 (Cleveland)
Primary care is often described as the backbone of the U.S. healthcare system. With policymakers, business leaders and consumer groups all agreeing on the importance of improving healthcare quality while re ...
read moreJuly 20, 2011 (Cleveland)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Deanna Moore, The Center for Health Affairs, 216.255.3614, deanna.moore@chanet.org
The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, along with The Mt. Sina ...
read moreJuly 06, 2011 (Cleveland)On May 1, Better Health Greater Cleveland was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a third round of funding to support Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q), a national initiative that has engaged 17 ...
read moreJuly 05, 2011 (Cleveland)
Earlier this month Andrea Bishop, project manager for The Center's Emergency Preparedness initiative, spoke at a regional conference regarding the Ohio Patient Tracking System. The 2011 Northeast Ohio MMRS ...
read moreJune 24, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center’s most recent issue brief, Behavioral Healthcare Checkup: Are We Where We Need to Be?, focuses on the behavioral healthcare system in Northeast Ohio. Today it is widely accepted that behavioral ...
read moreJune 13, 2011 (Cleveland)
President and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, Bill Ryan, wrote an Op-Ed on the closure of Cleveland Clinic's Huron Hospital, which was published by The Plain Dealer in the Forum section on Sunday, Jun ...
read moreJune 09, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center's workforce initiative, NEONI, has wrapped up its Healthcare Career Shadowing 2010-2011 academic year. During the school year, 550 high school students from 10 Northeast Ohio counties shadowed in ...
read moreJune 09, 2011 (Cleveland)
None of us likes to think about the scenarios that could cause us or a loved one to require trauma care, but if that care is needed for life-threatening injuries, we all want to be assured that the appropri ...
read moreMay 24, 2011 (Cleveland)
For more than 95 years, The Center has been synonymous with advocacy for Northeast Ohio hospitals. And to strengthen the visibility and position of the organization, The Center recently launched a new websi ...
read moreMay 02, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative, NEONI, have been awarded a Workforce Innovations Solutions grant in the amount of $20,374.62, from the Ohio Board of Regents. This grant, running ...
read moreMay 02, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, is winding down a successful year of emergency preparedness work and gearing up for the next year of grant funding and ongoi ...
read moreApril 13, 2011 (Cleveland)
President and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, Bill Ryan, responded to an article published by MedCity News that highlighted the rivalry between the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. Ryan's ar ...
read moreApril 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
Under The Center for Health Affairs’ most recent request, the region would receive $1.5 million in federal emergency preparedness funding during the next funding year, beginning July 1, 2011. The grant app ...
read moreApril 01, 2011 (Cleveland)On the evening of April 28, 2011, The Center for Health Affairs workforce initiative, NEONI, celebrated nursing excellence by recognizing nursing leaders and supporting partners throughout Northeast Ohio, ...
read moreMarch 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center's latest issue brief, Looking for a New Direction: Ohio Medicaid at a Crossroads, takes a look at Ohio's Medicaid program in the midst of the state budget process. Though there's no denying the ...
read moreMarch 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs and Better Health Greater Cleveland hosted a Transitions of Care collaborative meeting at the Visiting Nurses Association on March 15 as an opportunity for a network of ...
read moreMarch 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
Preliminary results from The Center's 2011 wage index project demonstrating an expected $8.4 million increase to the region's reimbursement were officially released at a Reimbursement Forum meeting on March ...
read moreFebruary 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
Hospitals routinely consider the healthcare needs of their communities as they are making decisions about their facilities and their service offerings. Now, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ha ...
read moreFebruary 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
As hospital nonprofit tax status and community benefit have been making their way into policy-oriented discussions with increased frequency, so has the related topic of uncompensated care. However, many of ...
read moreJanuary 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
In March, Northeast Ohio business, government and nonprofit leaders had the opportunity to participate in a national initiative intended to promote cross-sector collaboration and community preparedness in t ...
read moreJanuary 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
The hundreds of provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed early last year have just begun to unfold. As work in the 112th Congress gets underway, many lawmakers are vowing ...
read moreJanuary 01, 2011 (Cleveland)The start of the new year and legislative session brought many new faces to Washington's Capitol Hill and Columbus' Capitol Square. Newly elected officials and their veteran colleagues face a considerable array ...
read moreJanuary 01, 2011 (Cleveland)
The Center for Health Affairs has recently finalized a new collaboration with the Ohio Hospital Association and the other regional hospitals around the state aimed at expanding The Center’s DATABANK initiat ...
read moreDecember 01, 2010 (Cleveland)
Though every nation struggles to balance cost with access and quality, the United States seems to face a particular challenge with the cost side of the equation, spending significantly more on healthcare th ...
read moreDecember 01, 2010 (Cleveland)
This year marks the beginning of a new strategic plan for The Center for Health Affairs that will provide the foundation for the organization’s work through 2013. Over the summer of 2010, a committee of The ...
read moreDecember 01, 2010 (Cleveland)
StudentMAX™ annual reports, generated by The Center for Health Affairs and its workforce initiative NEONI , are distributed to each hospital and nursing education program user at the beginning of each calen ...
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