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MHA Monday Report July 29, 2024

Monday Report

Governor Signs FY 25 Budget and FY 24 Supplemental

 

Gov. Whitmer signed the fiscal year (FY) 2025 state budget on July 24. The budget proposal fully funds the Michigan Medicaid program, including significant increases to provider-funded Medicaid reimbursements in FY 24 and 25. The budget also …

 

Governor Signs Law Reducing Medical Waste

Gov. Whitmer signed Senate Bill 482, now Public Act (PA) 105 of 2024, on July 23, which extends the timeline for the disposal of sharps containers. Previously, state law mandated that sharps containers be removed …

 

 

June Medicaid and Medicare Enrollment in Michigan

 

The MHA updated its analysis of Medicaid and Medicare enrollment to reflect June 2024 data. The analysis now includes program enrollment as a percentage of each county’s total population and the split between fee-for-service and …

 

CMS Releases 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a proposed rule to update the physician fee schedule (PFS) payment system effective Jan. 1, 2025. The proposal would: Reduce the PFS conversion factor by …

 

Webinar Explores Connection Between Person and Family Engagement and Performance

The MHA is hosting the webinar Tying Person and Family Engagement (PFE) to Culture and Performance from noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 20. The webinar will provide examples of how peers at hospitals are creating a PFE …

 

Engaging Providers and Transforming Revenue and Quality Performance Simultaneously

The MHA’s Endorsed Business Partner (EBP) program promotes industry-leading firms and connects member hospitals to solutions that alleviate pain points. The MHA recently endorsed ModusOne Health, which is the only physician-founded and operated clinical diagnosis improvement company (CDxI®) …

MDHHS

MDHHS Seeks Feedback from Older Adults and Caregivers on the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) is now surveying adults aged 60 and older and their caregivers about their experience with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The survey is scheduled to …

 

Expanding Peer Recovery Coach Services to Improve Patient Outcomes

The fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget includes critical funding to support the work of peer recovery coaches (PRCs) in Michigan hospitals. Kelsey Ostergren, director of health policy initiatives, MHA, and Michelle Norcross, senior director of safety & quality, MHA Keystone Center, share the impact these resources have on patients and communities …

 

Applications are Now Open for the Infection Prevention and Control Scholarship

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has opened applications for the 2025 Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Scholarship program …

The Keckley Report

Campaign 2024 and US Healthcare: 7 Things we Know for Sure

“Over the weekend, President Biden called it quits and Democrats seemingly coalesced around Vice President Harris as the Party’s candidate for the White House. While speculation about her running mate swirls, the stakes for healthcare just got higher. Here’s why: …

Healthcare, to the Democratic-leaning voters is a right, not a privilege. Its majority think it should be universally accessible, affordable, and comprehensive akin to Medicare. They believe the status quo isn’t working: the federal government should steward something better. …

Regardless of the election outcome November 5, the U.S. healthcare industry will be under intense scrutiny in 2025 and beyond. It’s unavoidable.

Discontent is palpable. No sector in U.S. healthcare can afford complacency. And every stakeholder in the system faces threats that require new solutions and fresh voices.”

Paul Keckley, July 22, 2024

News to Know 

  • July 22 was the deadline to register by mail or online to be eligible to vote in the Primary Election on Aug. 6.

 

 

MHA in the NewsMHA CEO Brian Peters

Becker’s Hospital Review published an article July 23 that includes MHA CEO Brian Peters as one of 76 healthcare executives sharing their focus for the second half of 2024. Peters covered the importance of the …

 

Webinar Explores Connection Between Person and Family Engagement and Performance

Member News

The MHA is hosting the webinar Tying Person and Family Engagement (PFE) to Culture and Performance from noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 20. The webinar will provide examples of how peers at hospitals are creating a PFE culture by building policies into operations.

Engaging patients and families in systematic feedback and recommendations to improve quality and safety is associated with better outcomes in quality and the experience of care. The MHA Person & Family Engagement Roadmap features research and tools supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care that prove the value of person and family engagement.

The webinar also outlines a process for structuring value-based employee competencies that are foundational to delivering patient-centered care, programs that uniformly train and support knowledge and application of PFE principles across the system and examples of how to establish clear expectations of behaviors and actions that support a patient-centered culture.

Registration is free of charge for MHA member organizations. Chief nurse and medical officers, patient experience, safety & quality, social work and human resources professionals are encouraged to register.

Members with questions about the webinar or MHA Person & Family Engagement Roadmap may contact Erin Steward at the MHA.

MHA Monday Report July 22, 2024

Monday Report

Introducing New Infection Prevention Education

The MHA Keystone Center, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, created a series of online learning modules for infection control and prevention education. The modules cater to the needs …

CMS Releases Medicare 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a proposed rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service outpatient prospective payment system effective Jan. 1, 2025. The proposed rule: Provides a net 2.3% increase …

MHA Webinar Reviews CMS Medication Administration and Management Requirement Updates

The MHA is hosting the webinar CMS Medication Administration and Management: IV Medication, Blood Administration and Safe Opioid Use from 10 a.m. to noon ET Aug. 27. Knowing medication is involved in 80% of treatment …

MHA Podcast Welcomes New Board Chair, Explores Healthcare Priorities in Michigan

The MHA released a new episode of the MiCare Champion Cast kicking off the 2024-2025 program year discussing healthcare viability, public health, workforce, cybersecurity, the election and more. The episode, hosted by MHA CEO Brian Peters, features MHA Board Chair Julie Yaroch, DO …

The Keckley Report

Most Hospitals Fall Short on Affordability, Vision and Trust

“This weekend, the American Hospital Association kicks-off its annual Leadership Summit in San Diego. Its agenda is organized around 8 themes: Transforming Care Delivery and Payment, Patient Centricity Through Digital Transformation, Building a More Flexible and Sustainable Workforce, Financial and Operating Excellence, Igniting Innovation, Elevating Health Equity, Improving Behavioral Health and Governance Excellence. They’re important. …

Collectively, that’s welcome news for a nation that’s anxious and divided. The current state in U.S. healthcare is much the same. It needs its hospitals to step up.

Some Boards and their hospital leadership teams take affordability, vision and trust seriously. Some don’t.”

Paul Keckley, July 15, 2024

News to Know

  • July 22 is the deadline to register by mail or online to be eligible to vote in the Primary Election on Aug. 6.

MHA CEO Brian Peters

MHA in the News

The MHA received media coverage the week of July 15 on healthcare priorities in Michigan, the state budget and the intersection between public health and healthcare. Hillsdale Hospital published an episode of the Rural Health …

 

Introducing New Infection Prevention Education

Member News, Patient Safety and Quality, MHA Rounds

The MHA Keystone Center, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), created a series of online learning modules for infection control and prevention education. The modules cater to the needs of Michigan hospitals and are available at no cost.

Niki McGuire, the manager of the multidrug resistant organisms containment unit at MDHHS, and Josh Suire, a senior manager of safety and quality at the MHA Keystone Center, share the purpose of the series and how healthcare providers in Michigan can use the resource to improve infection prevention practices.

What is Project Firstline?

McGuire: Project Firstline is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) training collaborative that aims to provide more accessible infection control education for frontline healthcare workers. MDHHS partnered with the MHA Keystone Center to develop CDC-based education materials for Michigan’s healthcare workers. With a shared goal of creating accessible and applicable content, the MDHHS and MHA Keystone Center worked together to create six online courses. Three courses in the series are geared toward infection preventionists, with an emphasis on quality improvement best practices. The series also offers courses geared toward frontline workers that serve as a great training resource for staff to interact with at their convenience.

Suire: The Project Firstline modules were created with healthcare workers’ needs and preferences at the forefront. As a nurse with bedside experience myself, I understand healthcare providers are stretched thin. We intentionally built all the courses in an online system that allows participants to check in and out of the classroom around their schedule. Each module is also designed to take less than 45 minutes to complete.

What is the commitment associated with participating?

Suire: These resources were created to meet healthcare workers where they are. The courses are available to Michigan healthcare workers at no cost. We encourage participants to engage with the courses at their convenience. While the courses were created to be completed as a series, healthcare workers are welcome to take courses specific to their training needs.

What are the main takeaways a participant will obtain after taking the courses?

McGuire: MDHHS offers the assessment portion of the CDC’s Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) tool to all acute- and long-term care facilities in Michigan.  We are non-regulatory. The first two modules in this series are great for infection preventionists looking to begin the ICAR process – providing background information about the entire process and how to engage with MDHHS Healthcare Associated Infections team. The clinical modules will provide frontline workers with the competencies needed to engage in on-the-spot critical thinking about infection prevention – sharing best practices for hand-hygiene, transmission-based precautions and more.

Suire: The MHA Keystone Center aims to deliver frontline healthcare workers fun, interactive learning modules with basic infection prevention practices that should be implemented in day-to-day patient/resident care activities. It is our hope facilities across the state use these modules as part of their infection control and prevention program. We encourage all Michigan acute- and long-term care facilities to take advantage of this free resource to reduce the preventable spread of infections.

To learn more about the Project Firstline series, visit the module series webpage or contact the MHA Keystone Center.