Patient safety, pandemic response, workforce and recruitment and retention - these initiatives are the driving force behind IHA as we continue to expand our focus and broaden our reach to support Upstate New York’s best health care workers.
The Iroquois Healthcare Association (IHA) is pleased to introduce to you our newly developed Newsletter.
IHA’s quarterly newsletter will feature highlights and updates on our advocacy efforts, membership, programs & initiatives, United Iroquois Shared Services (UISS) updates, as well as any additional updates happening inside IHA. We want to take a moment to fill you in on all the association is doing as we near the end of 2021 and prepare for 2022.
As 2021 winds down and we continue to face COVID-19 head long, the Advocacy Team at IHA is planning its advocacy agenda and strategy for the 2022 legislative session. 2022 promises to be an eventful year. Not that 2021 wasn’t with the resignation of former Governor Andrew Cuomo amid allegations of sexual misconduct, followed by the elevation of now-Governor Kathy Hochul, New York’s first female governor.
For the second year in a row hospital and health system leaders in Upstate New York and throughout the nation have risen to meet perhaps the greatest test of their careers -- the uncertainty of the COVID -19 pandemic. While there have been hopeful times that the end of the pandemic is near and the world can get back to “normal”, those times have too often been disrupted by changes in the pandemic and changes in state policies that are ill-timed.
IHA received a 2021 grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to provide free online training and Google Chromebooks to entry level hospital workers in upstate New York.
IHA, the Home Care Association of New York State (HCA), and HANYS have developed a Statewide Hospital-Home Care Collaboration program as a means of facilitating innovative models of hospital-home care partnerships for front-end/pre-acute hospital care as well as far-end/post-hospital care, recovery, and long-term support.
Long Term Care Workforce Investment Organization (WIO)
The NYS Department of Health extended funding to WIO programs for an additional year, through March of 2022. This has allowed IHA WIO to continue providing free online training and recruitment and retention services to long term care facilities in New York state.
I am pleased to have had the opportunity to join the Iroquois Healthcare Association as the Executive Director of United Iroquois Shared Services (UISS), overseeing the UISS-Premier Group Purchasing Program for acute and non-acute healthcare in March 2021, just one year after the start of the pandemic.
At that time, the hospitals were starting to emerge from the peak of the winter surge and were beginning assess their operations to become more resilient and sustainable.
We are fortunate at IHA to have a dedicated team that shares a unique blend of knowledge, expertise, and commitment focused on advancing healthcare in Upstate NY by working closely with hospital and health system leaders, legislators, and policymakers to create an association dedicated to serving its members.
We want to say THANK YOU to our Elite Level Business Associate members, Paymerang, Third Party Reimbursement Solutions, LLC and NaluPay. Business Associate Membership is available to businesses that provide products and services to healthcare organizations including consultants/consulting firms, law firms, financial institutions, health plans, architectural design firms, executive search, supply chain and others.
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