Book Your Room: IHA Leadership Summit Hotel Discount Ends Aug. 22
Get ready for IHA Leadership Summit by
booking your hotel room before the discounted room rate expires this Friday, Aug. 22. For the second year, the Summit will be held at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center. We encourage hospital and health system leaders and teams from across the state to join us for the Sept. 25-26 IHA signature event.
If you haven’t registered yet, you can take advantage of reduced registration rates available through Sept. 11. The Summit—“
Unity Amid Uncertainty”—is designed for C-Suite leaders, hospital board members/trustees, department and clinical leaders, and emerging leaders.
This year's conference will focus on the uncertainty and opportunity created by rapid shifts in public policy and technology, including artificial intelligence. You'll hear from hospital and health system leaders in a no-holds-barred conversation about the future of Illinois healthcare, as well as in our new Member Innovation Showcase covering successful efforts to address key challenges.
See our
program webpage for more information. Hear about the Summit in video messages from IHA President and CEO
A.J. Wilhelmi and IHA Board Chair
Shawn Vincent, President and CEO of Loyola Medicine. Gather your team, book your rooms and join us at the Summit.
Register today.
Reminder: Apply for Rural Hospital Stabilization Program by Aug. 20
The Health Resources and Services Administration is reminding hospitals that the application period for the fall cohort of the
Rural Hospital Stabilization Program ends this Wednesday, Aug. 20. The program helps Critical Access Hospitals, prospective payment system hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, and Indian Health Service hospitals improve financial stability and expand necessary community services. Applications for the next cohort of the
Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program are also open until Sept. 30. The program provides two years of technical assistance for rural hospitals addressing financial and operational challenges and maintaining essential health services.
New High Blood Pressure Guideline Emphasizes Prevention, Early Treatment
Preventing and managing high blood pressure with healthy lifestyle behaviors, combined with early treatment with medication to lower blood pressure if necessary, are now recommended to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease, cognitive decline and dementia, according to a new clinical guideline published last week. A
statement issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) said the new guideline reflects several major changes since the previous 2017 guidelines, including use of the AHA’s PREVENTTM risk calculator to estimate cardiovascular disease risk. It also provides updated guidance on medication options and reaffirms the critical role healthy lifestyle behaviors play in preventing and managing high blood pressure.
Asset Inventory Guidance for Owners and Operators
New
guidance to assist operational technology (OT) owners and operators in creating and managing an OT asset inventory was released last week by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, National Security Agency, FBI and international agencies. Examples of OT in healthcare include electronic health record systems, medical device hardware and software. The guidance is intended to help owners and operators identify which of their assets should be secured and protected and develop defenses to reduce the risk a cybersecurity incident would pose to the organization’s mission and service continuity. The guidance identifies ways owners and operators can improve and use their inventory to protect other critical assets, including recommendations on OT cybersecurity and risk management, maintenance and reliability, performance monitoring and reporting, and training and awareness.
