Emergency Readiness
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) is pleased to support the Good Samaritan Health Professional Act (S. 2196). By extending to licensed, volunteer health professionals the same protective standards included in the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997, your legislation takes critical steps to help…
We support CMS’s goal for Medicare providers and suppliers to have comprehensive emergency preparedness plans and generally think that CMS has chosen the correct framework for the proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs).
CMS published in the Dec. 27 Federal Register a proposed rule that would establish emergency preparedness conditions of participation (CoPs) and conditions for coverage (CfCs) that hospitals, critical access hospitals and 15 other provider and supplier types would have to meet in order to…
National Preparedness Month Information for Hospitals about Terrorist Use of Toxins and Poisons
Recommendations of the National Consensus Panel on
This Regulatory Advisory examines CMS' May 4 proposed rule to revise the Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation \(CoP\) to require hospitals of all types to offer all inpatients and outpatients an annual influenza vaccination unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the patient…