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Hospitals Disaster Preparedness

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Deadline Approaching for California Hospitals to Meet Seismic Requirements

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On January 17, 1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Northridge, California, resulting in thousands of casualties and approximately $60 billion in damages and economic loss. Hospitals within the impacted area suffered...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management in Hospitals

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

CMS Clarifies Emergency Preparedness Testing Exemption

In a memorandum issued on September 28, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provided clarification to health care providers regarding an exemption to emergency preparedness testing exercise requirements...more

Morgan Lewis

Employers: How Prepared Are You for Ebola?

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Rapidly changing circumstances raise workplace questions. The Ebola epidemic in 2014 has already been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as the worst in history. The extent of this outbreak is...more

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Polsinelli Podcasts - What Health Care Providers Need to Know About Ebola Preparedness

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As the Ebola epidemic continues to grow in West Africa, hospitals across the U.S. are putting protocols in place to prepare themselves in the event that an Ebola patient is admitted to their facility. We’ve already seen...more

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CMS Proposes Extensive Emergency Preparedness Rules

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On December 26, 2013, CMS proposed emergency preparedness rules in the form of conditions of participation and conditions of coverage. These rules would apply to hospitals (including critical access hospitals), ambulatory...more

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