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March 21, 2025

President's Perspective – Healthworks Facilitates Collaboration and Innovation to Improve Health
Healthworks is important in helping KHA achieve its mission and vision. Today, I am highlighting Healthworks and the programs they offer to assist members with improving the health of Kansas hospitals and communities.

Join Us for 2025 KHA Spring District Meetings in April
KHA District Meetings provide our members with timely information and are essential in helping KHA learn about your top issues. We encourage CEOs, CFOs, HR executives, trustees and senior staff to join us. 
 

Welcome Susan Holmes to the KHA Staff Team
Earlier this month, KHA welcomed Susan Holmes as our new program manager for Healthworks.

QHi March Back to Basics Training Session – March 26
After a brief program update, participants will walk through the basics of selecting measures, adding users, entering/uploading data and running/scheduling customized reports.

Recruitment and Retention Strategies: Providing Real-Time Feedback Educational Webinar – April 3
This webinar will equip health care leaders and human resources professionals with tools and strategies to create a more engaging, supportive and growth-focused work environment, leading to stronger retention and improved recruitment outcomes.

UnitedHealthcare Releases Site of Services Medical Policies in First Quarter 2025
UnitedHealthcare has released three policies that have steadily implemented new Site of Service requirements, moving services out of hospitals and into alternative settings for ambulatory surgery, infusion drug delivery, colonoscopies and imaging services.

KHA Membership Directory Updates Due March 21
Last week, KHA members were sent a draft of their current data as it appears in the KHA database and online directory. We asked you to edit this document, providing us with the names, titles and email addresses of your executive staff. 

Administrative Professional Networking Roundtable Zoom Meeting – March 27
This isn't just another webinar. This free, interactive session focused on exchanging best practices, brainstorming and sharing valuable tips. CEOs, we ask that you share this information with your Executive Assistants and encourage them to register.

Measles / MMR Vaccine Resource Hub
With a reported case of measles in Stevens County and the growing measles outbreak in Texas and multiple other states, the Immunize Kansas Coalition has launched a Measles and MMR Vaccine Resource Hub. 

Disruptions in Availability of Hemodialysis Bloodlines Letter
On Friday, March 14, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released Disruptions in Availability of Hemodialysis Bloodlines – Letter to Health Care Providers | FDA to communicate supplier issues with hemodialysis bloodlines.

Kansas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children Conference – April 8
This conference will focus on educating professionals who may have an opportunity to identify and/or respond to children living in environments where illegal drugs are manufactured, sold, distributed or used.

Save the Date – Maternal Mortality Prevention Conference Aug. 7-8
The conference will explore the complex intersections of physical and mental health, substance use and intimate partner violence – key drivers of maternal mortality in Kansas.

Don't Leave Your Story Untold! Enter AHA's Foster G. McGaw Prize Competition
KHA knows how much Kansas hospitals and health systems do to improve community health and well-being through leadership and partnerships. Apply today for the 2026 Foster G. McGaw Prize.

Federal and National News
This week's topics include Congress Enacts, President Signs Continuing Resolution, Addiction Policy Forum Explains Why Addiction Literacy Matters, MLN Connects Provider eNews Available and Before You Go.