CMS-CDC Fundamentals of COVID-19 Prevention for Nursing Homes: New Format Starting August 20, we will offer training in a new way: Pre-recorded Sessions: We will post another training every Thursday at 4pm ET through September. Access them anytime on QIOProgram.org. Bi-weekly Question and Answer Sessions: Register to ask CMS and CDC experts questions about training … Read more
CMS PRESS RELEASE Aug 14, 2020 CMS Enforcement Action Against Nursing Homes Triples compared to last year Under the leadership of President Trump, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that the agency has imposed more than $15 million in civil money penalties (CMPs) to more than 3,400 nursing homes during the … Read more
Hospitals across the country have been contacting me in the past few days with the same question — receiving hospitals are demanding we sign sketchy transfer agreements. How does that fit with EMTALA? The answer, unfortunately, is not clearly addressed in EMTALA, but CMS representatives have expressed their enforcement views on the subject over the … Read more
On July 23, HHS Secretary Azar issued the following extension to the national emergency declaration for Covid-19. The effect of the extension is to continue the various HHS emergency rules suspensions or amendments that healthcare providers are currently operating under. The extension is in effect for 90 days (October 23, 2020) or until earlier rescinded. … Read more
A raging debate among the public and even among healthcare providers is constantly in the news — Do face coverings or masks mandates make sense for the public? When it comes around to future lawsuits over the Wuhan Virus treatment [a certainty in our litigious culture] big money will be riding on it. So, what … Read more
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once … Read more
CDC data currently shows hospital bed occupancy across the country as follows:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well-regulated militia, being necessary … Read more
Based on research by the Heritage Foundation, the Daily Signal is reporting 30 counties with the most COVID-19 cases account for 48% of all the cases in the U.S. and 55% of all deaths, three to four times greater than their 15% share of the U.S. population. Even allowing for suggestions that there is massive … Read more
I have worked with the quiet, unassuming folks at this hospital for all of my 15 years with JFG. Already under-manned due to its location in the high deserts of Arizona in Grand Canyon country, they have been ravaged by the Covid-19 virus ripping through the staff and families on the reservation. I recently learned … Read more