The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has released details about its Safety Net Transformation Program, including that DOH is now accepting letters of interest (LOI) from safety net hospitals that wish to apply for funding under the program. The State budgeted $300 million in its State fiscal year 2025 budget for the Safety...

GNYHA continues to assess the CrowdStrike outage’s impact on hospital operations since Friday, including the need to rely on downtime procedures and manually reconfigure computer workstations. We remain in contact with State and local officials who are monitoring for impacts. Our main request to date is for New York State to relax prior authorization requirements...

GNYHA recently submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model proposed rule. The IOTA Model is a proposed six-year mandatory payment demonstration to incentivize growth in the national rate of kidney transplantation. The model would apply to transplant centers located...

GNYHA is responding to a major network outage affecting the Windows systems worldwide, including those of hospitals. It involves an update issued by CrowdStrike, which provides cybersecurity products and services. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz issued a statement explaining that the outage was caused by a defect in an update to a product. The statement said...

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has released the awardee list for the first cycle of its Increasing Training Capacity in Statewide Health Care Facilities program. GNYHA advocated aggressively for the program’s creation during the State fiscal year 2022-23 budget negotiations. Hospital and nursing facility awardees will use program funding to expand their...

GNYHA provides members with the tools to develop and maintain a workforce that delivers high-quality patient care and biomedical innovations. This webpage highlights Federal and state funding opportunities currently accepting applications and details future funding opportunities for which members are eligible to apply. Open Funding Opportunities This section is updated regularly and features funding opportunities...

GNYHA recently held a member briefing on the evolving landscape for medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which has become less burdensome on providers. Robert Kent, President, Kent Strategic Advisors, LLC, reviewed the current regulatory landscape. The American Society of Addiction Medicine and Upstate University Hospital’s Ross Sullivan, MD, and Joshua J. Lynch, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of...

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has released the Solicitation of Interest (SOI) for Cycle 2 of the Nurses Across New York (NANY) program. NANY provides educational loan repayment to registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in exchange for a service commitment at a facility located in or serving an underserved...