Citing staffing concerns, 2 governors ask for ‘relief’ from CMS vaccine mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 02, 2022
Republican governors Jim Justice of West Virginia and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia requested “relief” Monday in the form of broader exemptions from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ vaccine...
COVID cases rise among nursing home staff, NIC says; AMDA releases new guidance
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 19, 2022
Weekly COVID-19 cases among skilled nursing home staff members and residents set new records earlier this month, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care.
Biden administration could withhold funds from long-term care providers to encourage worker vaccination
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2021
Biden administration officials are considering withholding funds from long-term-care providers that they say aren’t doing enough to encourage employee vaccinations, according to unnamed sources quoted...
Vaccine mandates murky for some assisted living operators
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 02, 2021
With legal challenges to COVID-10 mandates popping up every day, it’s difficult for healthcare providers to know where they stand, and the waters are even murkier for some assisted living operators,...
Republican effort to prevent ‘unlawful, sweeping’ OSHA mandates unlikely to succeed expert says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 07, 2022
A new Republican effort to try to prevent what several senators called “further unlawful, sweeping mandates” from the Biden administration is unlikely to succeed, according to one legal expert.
In absence of Supreme Court ruling, work toward compliance with OSHA rule, experts advise
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 11, 2022
With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration withdrawing part of its COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard, the agency’s vaccination-and-testing mandate for employers with 100 or...
Biden administration asks Supreme Court for stay from injunctions against CMS vaccine mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 20, 2021
As lawsuits mount from multiple states, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to reinstate nationwide the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ emergency regulation mandating...
COVID-19 booster compliance among long-term care workers remains low
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 15, 2022
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) this week clarified that long-term care and other healthcare workers in the state satisfy the state’s vaccination requirements once they obtain one booster dose of a COVID-19...
OSHA vaccination-and-testing mandate cases now moot, appeals court says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 23, 2022
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that all cases challenging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine-or test mandate are now moot, as OSHA withdrew on January 26, the emergency...
All states must comply with forthcoming COVID vaccine mandate, former OSHA official says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 29, 2021
Individual states do not have the authority to opt out of the emergency temporary standard on workplace COVID-19 vaccines and testing expected to be released soon by the Department of Labor’s Occupational...