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(Dec. 24, 2025) – Turn up your volume, and enjoy our e-card with the warmest of wishes for a holiday season.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – Participants will gain strategies related to preceptor roles, assessment, communication, feedback, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, legal considerations and burnout prevention. All sessions, both in-person and virtual, cover the same core material.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – The Critical Issues Summit, hosted by KHA, brings together hospital leadership and trustees from across the state and promotes the importance of good governance practices. It provides top-notch speakers, educational sessions and discussions on critical topics facing hospitals.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – This week, Advantage Optics, the online reporting tool accessed from the HIDI Advantage User Portal, where your KHA hospital-level data resides, was updated with the October 2025 data and now contains October 2020 – October 2025 inpatient, outpatient and emergency department discharges.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – The CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network reminds hospitals participating in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for the year 2025 of two upcoming deadlines for Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance reporting requirements.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – CMS released a new online form on www.cms.gov for providers needing to report a complaint about a Medicare Advantage Plan. The online form will capture basic information about the complainant, beneficiary, and Medicare Advantage plan.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – HRSA anticipates posting two opioid-related funding opportunities in February:
1. The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Planning, estimated posting date Feb. 2; and
2. The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Impact, estimated posting date on Feb. 23.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – CMS intends to announce a funding opportunity in early 2026 to support the Make America Healthy Again agenda.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – While the Trump Administration signed an executive order last week reclassifying marijuana from a schedule I controlled substance (C-I) to a Schedule III controlled substance (C-III), the order does not legalize marijuana under federal law.
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(Dec. 24, 2025) – On Dec. 16, the CDC announced it had adopted individual-based decision-making for hepatitis B immunization allowing parents to decide whether to give the hepatitis B vaccine, including the birth dose, to infants born to women who test negative for the virus.
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