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FDA issues guidance to increase mobile patient monitoring, imaging options
The Food and Drug Administration issued guidance allowing patients to use certain non-invasive fetal and maternal monitoring devices in the home during the COVID-19 emergency to reduce the need for in-clinic visits.
CMS urged to extend CJR on voluntary basis, hold hospitals harmless in 2020
AHA supports extending the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model for an additional three years, but only on a voluntary basis, the association told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in comments submitted.
CDC releases guidance on the use of reusable elastomeric respirators
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released contingency and crisis capacity strategies for the cleaning, decontamination and use of reusable elastomeric respirators during surge demand situations.
AHA-supported bill would extend COVID-19 telehealth expansion to additional providers
Reps. Cynthia Axne, D-Iowa, Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, and French Hill, R-Ark., introduced the Emergency COVID Telehealth Response Act, legislation that would extend the Department of Health and Human Services’ waiver authority for telehealth services
Reminder: Deadline is April 25 at 12 p.m. PST to submit data related to funding for COVID-19 high-impact areas
As urged by the AHA, the Department of Health and Human Services has extended to Saturday, April 25 at 12 p.m. PST the deadline for hospitals to submit data to help inform HHS’s targeted distribution of funds to hospitals and other facilities particularly burdened by COVID-19.
President signs COVID-19 relief package
President Trump signed into law the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, a COVID-19 relief package that includes an additional $75 billion to reimburse eligible hospitals, health systems and other providers for health care-related expenses or lost revenues not otherwise reimbursed that are directly attributable to COVID-19.
SBA: Certain public hospitals are eligible for Paycheck Protection Program
As urged by the AHA, the U.S. Small Business Administration today issued an interim final rule clarifying certain provisions implementing the Paycheck Protection Program, including whether public hospitals are eligible for a PPP loan.
FEMA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic – Ventilator Request
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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.
AHA Stat Blog: Hospitals and health systems share lessons for fostering physician well-being and fighting burnout
AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., shares examples of how Avera Health in South Dakota, WellSpan York Hospital in Pennsylvania, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System are implementing efforts to advance clinician well-being and reduce burnout. Read more.