Covid-19 Data Will Once Again Be Collected by CDC, in Policy Reversal
August 21st, 2020
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is reversing course on a change to the way hospitals report critical information on the coronavirus pandemic to the government, returning the...
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Trump Administration Has Issued More Than $15 Million in Fines to Nursing Homes During COVID-19 Pandemic
August 17th, 2020
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...
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Coronavirus data no longer going through CDC contains errors, misinformation: report
August 3rd, 2020
Analysts say the Trump administration's new online COVID-19 data system that bypasses the old platform managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leads to delays and...
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NSHN July 2020 LTCF Newsletter
July 29th, 2020
Now that you’ve been briefly introduced to NHSN, let’s take a brief tour through the NHSN LTCF Component. The LTCF component of NHSN was launched in 2012 to provide LTCFs with a resource to...
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Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data
July 29th, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington...
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CMS COVID-19 Reporting Requirements for Nursing Homes
June 9th, 2020
The reporting requirements for nursing homes became effective on May 8, 2020, when CMS published their interim final rule with comment. CMS memo QSO-20-29-NH provides additional information for...
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