HIT Consultant

AUGUST 6, 2023

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group Nursing homes have embraced technology, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help seniors, staff, and clinicians better communicate with one another and for residents to stay in touch with loved ones. Nursing homes are evolving.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

Many nursing homes lack the resources required to provide residents with the care they need and deserve, which results in low wages, insufficient staffing levels, high workloads and low morale. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble.

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HealthStream

MARCH 18, 2021

Even though nursing homes restricted visitors and resident departures, the nature of their workforce still made them an ideal environment for easy transmission of COVID-19. Asymptomatic spread played an especially strong role in this disaster for patients and staff alike.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. The area continues to face an increase in severe COVID-19 cases that require hospitalization – overwhelming many hospitals.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services found that most skilled nursing facilities (“nursing homes”) in Georgia that it surveyed are not correctly complying with life safety requirements or emergency preparedness requirements. The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S. OIG found 155 deficiencies.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The trial took place in 2019. .”

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit and found that selected nursing homes may not have complied with federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of 39 nursing homes they audited had possible deficiencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

"This exercise of discretion applies to telehealth provided for any reason, regardless of whether the telehealth service is related to the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions related to COVID-19."

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Healthicity

MARCH 3, 2022

Emergency Preparedness for Nursing Homes.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 8, 2022

A nursing home health system has agreed to pay the United States $1.75 A nursing home health system has agreed to pay the United States $1.75 The company is a not-for-profit corporation located in Florida that oversees healthcare facilities on its campus, including a nursing home and an assisted living facility.

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NY Health Law

APRIL 28, 2021

In recent months, there has been a lot of attention on decisions made during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State in regard to nursing homes. Nursing home operators themselves have faced suspicion in regard to such readmissions.

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Modern Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2022

Ned Lamont announced Thursday he plans to order nursing home workers and contractors with significant contact with residents to get a vaccine booster shot by Feb. 11, noting the state's increasing COVID-19 infection rate among staff. Connecticut Gov.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the COVID-19 Focused Inspection Initiative in Healthcare in March of this year. The measure was created to aid hospitals and nursing homes in the care and treatment of patients with coronavirus. Evaluating COVID-19 Procedures.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. Train appropriate staff to ensure authenticity of COVID-19 vaccination records.

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HealthStream

MARCH 12, 2021

Nursing facilities are feeling an outsized effect from COVID-19, between residents, patients, family caregivers, and staff. A sweeping program of testing and vaccination are the only viable solutions.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They identified that 6,622 nursing homes had been cited for infection prevention and control program deficiencies as of February 26, 2020, and Medicare.gov indicated that 24 nursing homes were part of a nursing home chain. The OIG’s audit found that 23 of the 24 nursing homes had possible deficiencies.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the COVID-19 Focused Inspection Initiative in Healthcare in March of this year. The measure was created to aid hospitals and nursing homes in the care and treatment of patients with coronavirus. Evaluating COVID-19 Procedures.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The numbers in the last three categories highlighted in the last paragraph more closely align with the yearly numbers presented for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, which might indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic prevented or delayed OIG representatives from handing out penalties.

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Med-Net Compliance

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

After a three-and-a-half-day trial, a jury returned a verdict for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a former employee of a Tennessee nursing home who had been fired after requesting intermittent leave to address her anxiety. The former employee suffered from anxiety throughout her adult life.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. [i]. Education for Staff Regarding Up-To-Date Vaccinations and Boosters.

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HealthStream

MARCH 25, 2021

Given the flow of short-term patients and staff members through any nursing care facility and opportunity for spreading infection, rapid testing for COVID-19 can help immensely.

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HealthStream

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In early 2020, CMS revised its survey process for long-term care facilities to focus on COVID-19 awareness and preparedness. What do facilities need to know?

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. This data gap had serious and sometimes fatal implications for people with IDD during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The FY 2022 report highlighted a number of key enforcement initiatives including telemedicine fraud and exploitation, unnecessary COVID-19 testing and services along with fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief funds, and opioid and prescription drug abuse. for every $1.00 expended.

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Health Law Attorney

JANUARY 13, 2022

In June 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“ OSHA ”) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ ETS ”) that would require, amongst other things, employers with 100 or more employees to adopt a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. OSHA’s mandatory vaccination policy would affect approximately 84 million employees.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Earlier this month, after urging from the American Telemedicine Association, HIMSS and other groups , Congress voted to waive some restrictions for Medicare telehealth coverage as part of its new COVID-19 supplemental funding package. THE LARGER TREND.

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HealthStream

MAY 7, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it extremely apparent that nursing homes and other long-term care facilities must move ahead in their efforts to encourage internet connectivity and use, as well as provide the necessary hardware to do so.

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The Health Law Firm

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Ron DeSantis signed a bill that protects businesses, governments, and healthcare providers in Florida from COVID-19 lawsuits if they make a reasonable effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus (whatever that means).

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

Recall that the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. spread between nursing homes. These facilities, like most nursing homes, are for-profit businesses that pad their margins by cutting labor costs. In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on many people’s lives, not the least of whom are the many brave and selfless frontline providers of healthcare services, including doctors, nurses, home health aides and others in a […]. The following is a guest article by Barry Posner, Esq.,

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned during the global emergency of the past year and a half. This mandate was overturned in May 2020.

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Health Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendation s for Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or Persons Under Investigation for COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings: Strategies to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF):

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 24, 2020

To prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, states should focus on preventing the spread of COVID-19 at high-risk sites, such as nursing homes, and in high-risk localities, the COVID-19 Policy Alliance—a group of experts brought together […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Taffy for the nursing homes, lollipops for the device manufacturers…. Read more about immunity from liability in the COVID-19 pandemic in Brown’s article, “ When the wrong people are immune, ” published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences in 2020. . just raise your hand. going once, going twice….

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

This month’s article looks at COVID enforcements.?? ?. The Federal government spent unprecedented trillions of dollars throughout the COVID public health emergency (PHE). Remember when immunizations for COVID first became available? Those enforcement efforts have not slowed down. Let’s look at a few. MorseLife agreed to pay $1.75

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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