Given the short timeframe required for CMS compliance, Facilities must act quickly to ensure they have, or can develop and implement, these new COVID-19 policies and procedures. Further, specific documentation standards and...more
Who Needs to Know -
All health care employers covered by the Emergency Temporary Standard and all employers in other industries, including a workforce with both vaccinated and unvaccinated employees. ...more
Why It Matters -
Businesses should begin to address these issues now so that when COVID-19 vaccines are ready for distribution, they will be too....more
12/16/2020
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Why It Matters -
Businesses should begin to address these issues now so that when COVID-19 vaccines are ready for distribution, they will be too.
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On August 12, 2020, Troutman Pepper published an advisory summarizing the workplace requirements of Virginia’s new COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) for infectious disease prevention. While most of the ETS is...more