CMS issues reprieve for 2,500 nursing homes yet to report COVID vaccination rates
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 15, 2021
Nursing homes that have not reported required resident and staff vaccination rates to federal officials will get a reprieve before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services begins assessing penalties,...
Strategy to ‘harmonize’ COVID vaccine opens door to mandate, flu shot changes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 27, 2023
An effort to streamline the national COVID-19 vaccination approach and shift to single, annual shots for most people may have major implications for nursing home staff.
Providers are getting closer on the Drive to 75
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 14, 2021
At least one group of nursing homes has surpassed the 70% threshold when it comes to vaccinating staff.
When CMS gives you a gift, pay it forward
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 16, 2021
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services presented some 2,500 nursing homes with quite a gift: an additional seven days to avoid a fine for missing a new vaccination reporting deadline....
Health economists urge CMS to mandate COVID-19 staff vaccinations through quick rule-making process
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 11, 2021
A trio of prominent health policy experts is calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to “tap the levers” of its regulatory powers and use the Rules of Participation to require frontline...
With their own deadlines set, providers ‘wait and see,’ hope for expansion of federal vaccine mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
Danielle Brown
Aug 20, 2021
The COVID-19 vaccination policies and deadlines implemented by several of the country’s largest post-acute care operators will remain intact after President Joe Biden announced a vaccination requirement...
Unvaccinated nursing home staff in the hot seat as CDC investigates COVID-19 breakthrough cases
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 23, 2021
Several Colorado senior care facilities are at the center of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 investigation, and public health officials there are zeroing in on unvaccinated staff...
What exactly are we waiting to see? It’s time to act on mandates
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 14, 2021
As a coalition of long-term care medical and infectious disease experts Tuesday called on healthcare facilities to require COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment, I couldn’t help but think of...
BREAKING: AHCA backs mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 29, 2021
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living today backed mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers, joining dozens of other organizations that have done so...