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Joint Commission creates web portal for COVID-19 resources

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The Joint Commission has created a web portal with resources to assist health care workers as they prepare for a surge of patients with COVID-19.
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Coronavirus Update: CMS Releases Additional Waivers for COVID-19

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released additional new waivers

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CMS suspends rules to create staffing flexibility

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) April 9 temporarily suspended a number of rules so that hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities can boost frontline staffs during the pandemic.

Businesses offer discounts to those on the pandemic front line

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Lodging, transportation and other hospitality businesses are offering discounts to hospital and health system employees responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ochsner shares strategies for coping with COVID-19 surge

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Ochsner Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in New Orleans, a U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, received its first coronavirus patient on March 9.

HHS Survey Spotlights Hospital COVID-19 Strategies

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To provide decision makers with a snapshot of hospitals' challenges and needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the office of the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted a national survey between March 23 and March 27.
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Coronavirus Update: CMS Announces Expansion of Medicare Accelerated Payment Program

Building on provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded the Medicare accelerated payment program, which is intended to provide necessary funds to providers when there is a disruption in claims submission and/or claims processing.
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Case Study: Getting in Front of COVID-19: Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Save the Lives of Seniors

The first case of COVID-19 in Humboldt County, Calif., was confirmed on February 20, 2020. As of April 4, the number of cases in the county total 44.