On January 30, 2022, President Biden announced that the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) will finally end on May 11, 2023.[1] Since the PHE was declared on January 31, 2020, emergency declarations and waivers were...more
At long last, South Carolina has seen significant improvements in fighting COVID-19 and has made enough progress in administering COVID-19 vaccines such that Governor Henry McMaster issued an executive order on May 11, 2021...more
As of July 12, there have been 142,231 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 38,518 deaths in nursing homes. For this reason, CMS recently called nursing homes “ground zero for COVID-19” and announced enhanced survey activities and...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic began this spring, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) called on all health care providers to activate infection control practices to help limit the spread of the virus....more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on July 14, 2020 that it is distributing rapid point-of-care diagnostic test instruments and tests to all 15,400 nursing homes throughout the country to...more