News & Analysis as of

Healthcare Workers › Home Health Care › Coronavirus/COVID-19

Fox Rothschild LLP

DOL Seeks to Repeal Over 60 Workplace Regulations

Fox Rothschild LLP on

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has ambitious plans to repeal or rewrite over 60 regulations affecting workplaces across the country. Although the department did not specify which regulations will be targeted, two...more

Benesch

2024 Outlook: Behavioral Health Trends

Benesch on

Healthcare systems are facing significant challenges in recruiting and retaining talent within the burgeoning field of behavioral health services, primarily due to competition from telehealth providers and inconsistent...more

Stevens & Lee

Hospital at Home Programs Are Sticking Around

Stevens & Lee on

Health systems and hospitals have implemented “hospital at home” programs for several years, but the trend increased in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic due to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) waiver....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

OSHA Pursues Potential Standard for Prevention of Workplace Violence in Healthcare and Social Assistance and Unions Urge...

Husch Blackwell LLP on

The increase in the frequency of violent confrontations faced by healthcare workers in the workplace is prompting OSHA to pursue a standard for Prevention of Workplace Violence in the Healthcare and Social Assistance...more

Saul Ewing LLP

2022 Health Care Predictions

Saul Ewing LLP on

​COVID-19 – and its variants Delta and Omicron – continue to wreak havoc around the world. Thousands of individuals have died and continue to die, and millions more have been diagnosed as having COVID-19. Many sectors of the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

CMS to Require COVID-19 Vaccines by January 4, 2022 for Many Healthcare Staff

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on

On November 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) with Comment Period, 86 Fed. Reg. 61555 (Nov. 5, 2021), requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of staff of many...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

California Issues More Expansive Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

In early August, California’s Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a mandate for health care workers to be vaccinated by September 30, 2021. Local government agencies within California, like the County of Los Angeles...more

Fisher Phillips

Most Healthcare Employers Will Soon Need to Implement Vaccine Mandate

Fisher Phillips on

The Biden Administration’s recent “Path Out of the Pandemic” expands the COVID-19 vaccine mandate covering nursing home workers and will soon reach 17 million healthcare workers at Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities....more

Perkins Coie

OSHA Issues COVID-19 ETS for Healthcare Settings

Perkins Coie on

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) on June 10, 2021. The ETS applies to workplace settings where professional healthcare...more

Brooks Pierce

OSHA’s New Emergency Temporary Standard to Protect Healthcare Workers

Brooks Pierce on

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for the healthcare industry. The new standard focuses on protecting healthcare...more

10 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide