CMS has joined with OSHA in suspending its mandate for COVID-19 vaccination of healthcare workers while the interim final rule is under a legal challenge.
Hospitals are welcome to voluntarily enforce the requirement anyways, says CMS.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra signed another order on October 15 extending the national public health emergency (PHE) related to the COVID-19 pandemic for another 90 days.
As many hospitals across the nation continue to face COVID-19 patient surges that overwhelm emergency rooms and ICUs, CMS also issued a reminder to hospitals to remember their obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
A family medicine physician has lost his license for spreading misinformation related to COVID-19. Arthur LaTulippe, MD, who practiced in Dallas, Oregon, refused to wear a mask when seeing patients and also told his patients that wearing a mask was dangerous to their health.
DNV is cutting back on the number of onsite hospital surveys in response to a dramatic, continuing rise in COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed hospitals in several states. The second-largest accreditation organization (AO) in the country will continue to do triennial hospital surveys as required...