Resource Document for New OB, ER Readiness and Transfer Conditions of Participation

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The Kansas Hospital Association looks forward to celebrating National Hospital Week next week, May 11-17. A toolkit of resources is available to assist members in their hospital week celebrations. The assets are online in the Hospital Week Toolkit folder. They include videos, social media posts, frames, a media release and more. AHA also resources hospitals can use.

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Join Kansas Health Service Corporation on Tuesday, May 20 at 10 a.m. featuring Critical Marketing, a KHSC partner dedicated to helping Critical Access Hospitals stretch their marketing budgets, build community trust, and improve health education.

Healthworks Board Meeting - May 22

KHA established a foundation for it's members in 1969 and redesigned it in 1998 as a 501(c)3 organization. Healthworks, previously the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, is funded through contributions, grants and educational fees.

KHSC Board Meeting - May 27

KHSC is a wholly owned subsidiary of KHA. Therefore, a secondary objective of KHSC is to support KHA in meeting its mission to serve hospitals. Its mission is to provide enhanced value to KHA members through evaluation and endorsement of selected vendors of services needed by the KHA membership. KHSC will be a valuable resource to Kansas health care facilities and KHA as they serve their constituents.

KHA Board Retreat - May 28-May 30

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Resource Document for New OB, ER Readiness and Transfer Conditions of Participation

(May 2, 2025) – The Kansas Hospital Association has developed the 2025 OPPS OB, ER and Transfer CoP to assist you in meeting the new Obstetrics, Emergency Room readiness and Transfer Conditions of Participation that were part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' OPPS Final Rule for 2025. The document has the new requirements based on the timeframes for completion. Also included is additional information based on CMS's responses to comments in the OPPS Final Rule, since CMS has not developed Interpretive Guidelines. The resource document can be found on the Regulatory page of the KHA website.
--Larry Van Der Wege

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