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California Hospital Association outlines strained hospital landscape, urges board to separate hospital practice issues
Summary
The California Hospital Association told the board that hospitals face high occupancy, workforce costs, seismic retrofit mandates and a new Office of Healthcare Affordability, and asked the board to treat hospital pharmacy practice as distinct from retail pharmacy.
The California Hospital Association (CHA) presented a wide‑ranging overview of hospital operations and urged the California State Board of Pharmacy to treat hospital pharmacy practice as distinct from retail practice and to create a hospital pharmacy advisory track.
Sherry Lowe, CHA vice president for policy, told the board that hospitals are under sustained operational strain. “If you’ve seen 1 hospital, you’ve seen 1 hospital,” Lowe said, arguing that hospitals vary widely but share common pressures: high occupancy, much higher acuity, workforce shortages and rising contract‑labor costs. She described emergency departments filled with patients awaiting discharge…
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