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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). COVID Testing Requirements. In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80 COVID Reporting Requirements. COVID SNF Notification Requirements.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Recasts Skilled Nursing Visitation Action Items or Post-PHE Visits 

Hall Render

As skilled nursing facilities work and provide health care services after the May 11, 2023, end of the Public Health Emergency, questions and concerns about visitation at these facilities will likely continue to arise.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

CMS also provides independent oversight of labs’, providers’, and facilities’ compliance with “Medicare health and safety standards.”. Compare, for example, federal treatment of nursing homes with prisons. None of these rules apply to state and local carceral spaces, which are outside of CMS’ regulatory orbit.

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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022

Hall Render

AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says.

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The Pandemic Prison

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The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governs “public health” for its captives. The scale of COVID-19 in jails, prisons, and detention centers was expected. By Dan Berger. Yet these were perhaps the most preventable infections.

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Health Provider News – March 25, 2022

Hall Render

Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act becomes law. Here are the top health systems by patient reviews. Hospital stays for nursing home residents down nearly 9%, federal data shows. OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule. County’s public health system.

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Health Provider News – April 1, 2022

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Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Nursing Home Operating Expenses Could Balloon by $500K With Staffing Minimums in Place. Parkinson warns of new ‘enormous’ business problem for nursing homes; highlights staffing-minimum alternative.