New state rankings rate pandemic healthcare performance
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 22, 2022
Health systems in Hawaii and Maine ranked the highest among the states as far as vaccination rates, capacity in hospital and intensive care units, and death rates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, in new...
Staff COVID-19 vaccinations have risen 25 percentage points under CMS mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 18, 2022
COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing home staff jumped 25 percentage points nationally thanks in no small part to a CMS mandate imposed earlier this year.
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...
‘We’re not going to back away from the mandate,’ NJ governor says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 25, 2022
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is standing firm on the Feb. 28 vaccine mandate deadline for healthcare workers to receive the COVID-19 booster shot, he said at a news briefing Wednesday. Under the governor’s...
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...
Bill would exempt healthcare workers from vaccination mandates
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 15, 2022
Healthcare workers in Tennessee who have religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine would be exempt from vaccination mandates if Republican-led bill moves forward in the state General Assembly and is...
16-state coalition seeks to block CMS vax mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 08, 2022
Attorneys general from 16 states asked a federal judge Friday to block the U.S. government from enforcing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate in their respective states...
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.
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.