Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 241: Fighting Nurse Burnout with Data-Driven Innovation with Dr. Ecoee Rooney of Indicator Sciences
Podcast - What Healthcare Providers Should Be Telling Students and Interns About HIPAA and Snooping
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 219: The Evolving Nursing Industry with Terry McDonnell of Duke University Health System
(Podcast) California Employment News: California’s New Healthcare Minimum Wage
Podcast: California Employment News - Public Healthcare Workers Now Get Meal and Rest Breaks
California Employment News: Public Healthcare Workers Now Get Meal and Rest Breaks
End of Year Tax Planning: Tips for Healthcare Professionals and Practices
#WorkforceWednesday: Employers Respond to Dobbs, Implications of the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, and Pay Increases for CA Health Care Workers - Employment Law This Week®
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Podcast | Episode 102: Matt Logan, President & CEO, Self Regional Health Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Podcast | Episode 101: Lara Hewitt, SCHA and Russell Baxley, Beaufort Memorial Hospital
Podcast: OSHA's Permanent COVID-19 Standard and Enforcement Blitz - Diagnosing Health Care
Healthcare Employment Contracts: Important Considerations Before Signing on the Dotted Line
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
On Her Shoulders Podcast Season 2, Episode 2: Inspired Leadership (w/ Dr. Prathibha Varkey)
Hospice Leadership Strategy: Re-engaging Staff and Communities With Story
The Labor Law Insider: Understanding the Risk of Strikes Faced by the Healthcare Industry
Podcast: Owner's Outlook: Vaccine Mandate for Construction Workers at Health Care Facilities - Diagnosing Health Care
Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: Exploring Answers to Hospices' Top Vaccination Questions
#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS Decides on Vaccine Rules, Companies Can Still Require Vaccination, Restrictive Covenants in CO - Employment Law This Week®
As legal counsel to skilled nursing facility (SNF) owners and operators, as well as their lenders, Holland & Knight's Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Team is closely monitoring potential impacts of President Donald Trump's One...more
A federal judge in Iowa recently struck down key parts of a Biden-era final rule that set new minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities as a condition of participation in Medicare or Medicaid programs. The June...more
News Briefs - Federal Judge Rejects Nursing Home RN Staffing Mandate - A federal judge has struck down the federal nursing home staffing mandate's demands that a registered nurse be on duty 24/7 every day of the year, as well...more
The Biden administration’s controversial Final Rule establishing minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes is under new attack. The Final Rule, long decried by nursing home industry leaders as a one-size-fits-all...more
News Briefs - Appeals Court Rules Drug Firms Can Limit 340B Discounted Drugs - An appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling on 340B that sided with drug manufacturers. At issue is whether pharmaceutical companies can...more
News Briefs - Biden Places New Tariffs on Chinese Medtech Product Imports - The Biden administration announced its plan to increase tariffs on Chinese-made medical supplies as part of a broader push to tax imports from the...more
The long term care industry is currently in the midst of a labor crisis, with nursing homes in particular experiencing chronic and severe staffing shortages. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapidly aging population,...more
News Briefs - Feds Propose New Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Requirements - The nation's most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed by the Biden administration, the...more
News Briefs - High Court Rules Residents Can Sue Publicly Owned Nursing Homes - The U.S. Supreme Court preserved the ability of people to sue for civil rights violations under an 1871 law as it rejected a bid to prevent an...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a Final Rule regarding the former COVID-19 vaccine requirements. The Final Rule withdraws the COVID-19 health care staff...more
On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccination...more
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
On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six-pronged, comprehensive plan to combat COVID-19 and its variants. One prong of that plan includes expanding vaccination requirements for Medicare and Medicaid-certified...more
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) recently updated its COVID-19 control measures in response to the resurgence of positive cases across the state, and all employers regardless of industry will be expected to take...more
On August 18, 2021, President Biden announced that he would use the regulatory authority of the Executive Branch to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rate among nursing home workers. President Biden directed the Department of...more
British Columbia recently announced new public health requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccinations for those working at long-term care and seniors’ assisted living facilities. In the announcement, Dr. Bonnie Henry, British...more
On August 18, 2021, President Biden announced that nursing home staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or the facilities employing them could lose federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. ...more
On August 12, 2021, the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) adopted final rules revising regulations for Personal Care Homes (PCH(s)) and Assisted Living Communities (ALC(s)). The final rules implement changes made...more
As we have previously written, the landscape for employers in the time of COVID-19, particularly healthcare employers and long term care facilities, is ever-changing and quickly moving. In the last year, healthcare employers...more
Senate Democrats, including chairs of two powerful committees, have started to tackle the nightmarish problems that experts blame for allowing the coronavirus pandemic to take a terrible toll on vulnerable residents of...more
On August 2, 2021, CMS published the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) final rule for federal fiscal year (FY) 2022. The final...more
On August 6, 2021 Governor Lamont issued Executive Order No. 13B mandating vaccination of all employees working at long-term care (LTC) facilities throughout Connecticut....more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), on June 10, 2021, released a long-anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) to protect workers that provide healthcare and healthcare support services from...more
Like many other healthcare companies, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have been ravaged by COVID-19. A recent review of only 39 states found approximately 569,000 to 616,000 COVID-19 cases and 91,500 deaths were...more
OSHA has issued guidance on personal protective equipment (“PPE”) and respiratory protection use in nursing home and long term care facilities (collectively “LTCFs”) to protect against COVID-19. In its recently issued...more