IHA Weekly News - May 1, 2024
Ivy Tech Testifies on Health Care Workforce Shortage
Recently, officials from Ivy Tech Community College testified before Congress on the collaborative efforts of Indiana's health care providers, legislators, government agencies, and education providers to tackle the state’s long-term care workforce shortage.
Matt Connell, vice president of healthcare for Ivy Tech, was called as Senator Mike Braun’s witness before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging to speak to the College’s work to educate and train more long-term care workers. In his testimony, Mr. Connell highlighted the success of Ivy Tech’s partnership with the Indiana Hospital Association and the Indiana General Assembly to create more flexibility in how the College opens, delivers, and expands its healthcare programming – including the passage of HEA 1003: Nursing Indiana Back to Health, which has enabled Ivy Tech to add 766 new nursing seats across the state through Spring 2024 while increasing students’ pass rates on the NLCEX-RN and NCLEX-PN to over 90% and 97%, respectively.
IHA is grateful for Ivy Tech’s partnership and advocacy before Congress. Click
this link to watch the committee hearing or read Ivy Tech’s testimony
here.
Patient Safety Summit Addresses Medication Safety
According to the CDC, each year in the United States, harms resulting from medication use are responsible for more than one million visits to hospital emergency departments. What about medication-related risk that occurs in health care settings? Errors can occur along the complex process from prescribing to administration. Listening to our members’ needs, the Summit will include an informative and engaging session around medication safety. A dynamic team of pharmacy professionals with Indiana connections will lead the session that will include interactive group think.
Register today.
Complete AHA Annual Survey By May 31
Members, we ask that you please participate in the AHA Annual Survey, which is now online. As you know, the AHA Annual Survey is an important source of provider data and the source for AHA Guide®, Hospital Statistics™ and U.S. News & World Report's Directory of America's Hospitals (www.usnews.com). It is vitally important to collect accurate and updated information about your organization each year, and your response ensures that your hospital's information will be represented in these field-defining resources.
Health care leaders, policymakers, and researchers use the AHA Annual Survey to better describe and understand the operations of U.S. hospitals. The data and insights drawn from the survey also support several important AHA actions, including strong advocacy on behalf of hospitals and health systems. The AHA uses these data to assess the impact of legislative and regulatory policy changes and educate policymakers about the realities that face America's hospital and health system leaders as they care for their patients and communities.
Over the last year, the AHA has been working to update their survey platform to provide you with a better survey experience. This year's survey is being launched on a fully refreshed survey platform. Our hope is that these changes will make the survey more user friendly and easier to complete. Some new features of note include:
A new secure sign on system.
This will require all users (without existing AHA logins) to register with the updated platform on the AHA page.
Once you register and log-in you will be directed to the annual survey page.
The new system will allow users to set their own password and do their own reset if needed.
Helpers can now be assigned to specific sections of the survey.
Data now auto saves.
Faster loading time and better progress tracking.
Important resources:
A helpful walkthrough document is saved
here.
The email assigned as survey administrator for logging on was sent to you previously. If you cannot locate the instructional email, please reach out to
Laura Gilbert.
If you have not done so before, please take advantage of AHA's online data collection. More than 4,000 of your colleagues completed their survey electronically last year. The web-based tool is easy-to-use, efficient, and secure. Entering the data online allows you to:
Confirm the accuracy of your entry before submission and receive valuable benchmark information.
Enable access to the online survey to multiple users within your hospital.
Provide historical reference data as well as instant data verification as information is entered.
If you have questions or need assistance completing the survey, please call 800-530-9092 or email
surveysupport@aha.org. Survey responses are due May 31. Thank you in advance for your continued participation in the AHA Annual Survey.
Updated Abortion Complication Report Form & TPR User Guide
The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) shared two updated resources related to terminated pregnancies. First, the Abortion Complication Report state form has been updated, and
the following form should be utilized going forward for treatment of abortion complications as required by
IC 16-34-2-4.7. The Induced Termination of Pregnancy User Guide, which providers can follow to submit Terminated Pregnancy Reports into DRIVE, was also updated and can be found
here. IDOH's Abortion Information Center
webpage has each of these updated documents as well. Please contact a member of the IHA team if you have any questions upon review.
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