Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications

In this webinar, health care provider panelists shared how their organizations have adapted their patient access procedures to ensure a safe environment for delivering care. They addressed how they’re navigating patients to alternative care settings, like telehealth, and how they're providing their communities vital, timely information about receiving care.

The federal government has adopted the following process to manage federal ventilator resources to ensure the ventilators and related supplies are shipped to locations in the amount needed to manage the immediate crisis.

Elliot Health System nurses know a clean and safe environment for all staff and patients is vital to combatting COVID-19 and honor their environmental services team as health care heroes.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced regulations requiring nursing homes to fully cooperate with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance of the spread of COVID-19 by reporting cases of COVID-19 directly to the CDC.

During an webinar hosted April 22 by the American Hospital Association, senior leaders from Baltimore’s Sheppard Pratt Health System discussed ways to re-engineer care processes and protocols and to perform a virtual assessment designed to decrease the number of psychiatric patients in the emergency department during the COVID-19 surge.

Eight recommendations for optimizing infection control and operating room management stand on a substantial body of empirical evidence characterizing the epidemiology of perioperative transmission and infection development, according to the authors of a recent paper.

The Coalition for Health Funding, which includes AONL, wrote to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations this month to urge Congress to significantly boost federal investments in health in FY 2021.

Becker’s Hospital Review reached out to 73 hospital and health system leaders in the 10 states hardest hit by COVID-19 to get their thoughts on leadership, communication, surge planning, employee wellbeing, working with government and other topics.

With the COVID-19 pandemic placing extraordinary strains on health professionals and hospital staff, some health systems are finding creative ways to support their employees.

A nurse, a physician and a public health professor with experience in disaster response recommend health care organizations implement three strategies to enhance organizational cohesion and reduce adverse effects on employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, WHO released the State of the World’s Nursing Report 2020 this month.

People with diabetes appear to be at higher risk of having more severe COVID-19 infections, but researchers have insufficient data to quantify that risk, according to an April 8 evidence review by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM).

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a dedicated page highlighting resources related to COVID-19 response and recovery.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT this week announced the final interoperability rules will be published in the Federal Register May 1 with changes in certain compliance and enforcement deadlines. The rules were originally released on March 9.

Dear Secretary Azar and Administrator Verma:

Earlier this week, HHS announced it will make targeted distributions to hospitals and other facilities that have been particularly affected by the increased burden of caring for those with the COVID-19. HHS asked all hospitals to submit certain data via a vendor portal called TeleTracking to help inform how it will distribute funding.

In part one of this two-part podcast, you’ll hear from two senior officials at the forefront of the ongoing duel with cybercriminals.

On April 21, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it soon will make targeted distributions to hospitals and other facilities that have been particularly affected by the increased burden of caring for those with COVID-19.

Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) COVID-19 Coordination Call Summary