Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)

AHA鈥檚 Hospital Community Collaborative, now in its second year, is seeking hospitals and community groups for its 2021 cohort to explore community-level health disparities caused, exacerbated or illuminated by COVID-19. 
The Food and Drug Administration authorized several SARS-CoV-2 serial screening tests for asymptomatic individuals.
The Department of Health and Human Services updated its Provider Relief Fund FAQs related to 鈥淭erms and Conditions,鈥 鈥淥wnership Structures and Financial Relationships,鈥 and 鈥淯se of Funds.鈥 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released an article informing all Medicare providers and suppliers who requested and received COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payments that it began recovering those payments March 30, depending on the one-year anniversary of their first payment.
New information sharing requirements for health information technology take effect April 5 under an interim final rule released last year by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. 
As part of AHA鈥檚 Joining Hands for Greater Impact series, we talk to Atrium Health, American Airlines and Charlotte Douglas International Airport representatives about how they came together to 鈥済et shots in arms鈥 in Charlotte, N.C. 
The Food and Drug Administration recently issued an emergency use authorization for a next generation sequencing test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory specimens from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their health care provider.
In this episode of Leadership Rounds, I talk with Alvin Hoover, CEO of King鈥檚 Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, Miss., who is serving on the front lines of rural health care.