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What Is the Role of the Health System in Addressing the Behavioral Health Epidemic?

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One in five U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2021. This represents 57.8 million people. However, only 47.2% of U.S. adults with mental illness received treatment in 2021. The country is deep in a behavioral health...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Are We Really Prepared for the Next Pandemic?‎

Schwabe’s recently published report, “State of Healthcare in the Pacific Northwest,” offers reason for optimism. It notes that over 40% of the healthcare workers in Oregon and Washington who responded to the firm’s survey...more

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NLRB Concludes Exigent Circumstances Delay, Do Not Eliminate, Decisional Bargaining

In a decision instructive to employers facing sudden, emergency conditions requiring immediate response, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Metro Man IV, LLC d/b/a Fountain Bleu Health and Rehabilitation...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - September 2022

It is an old problem in medical care -- and human life. The stigma of some human conditions -- weight gain, mental health, substance abuse, and now monkey pox, to name a few -- brings shame. And shame brings silence. And...more

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National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan Summary

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The White House has released a COVID-19 preparedness plan that assumes we will be living with the virus for the long term. The 96-page plan has four primary goals: (1) protect against and treat COVID-19, (2) prepare for...more

Hogan Lovells

PREVENT Pandemics Act to build pandemic capabilities and implications for medical product developers

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Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate HELP Committee released a discussion draft of the “Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act” (“PREVENT Pandemics Act”), a sweeping package broadly...more

Blattel Communications

What the Pandemic Teaches Us About Clear Messaging and Crisis Communications

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The pandemic has been marked by times when the public health messaging driving mainstream behavior has been altered, or even reversed in short order. •No need to wear masks. •You need to wear a mask. •You need to wear...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Shutdowns Turnarounds Superconference - December 7th - 8th, Alberta, Canada

Canada’s leading event for the turnaround community is returning to Calgary! Focusing on the most pressing issues affecting the industry The Canadian Institute’s 20th Annual Shutdowns Turnarounds Superconference ensures you...more

Adams and Reese LLP

Shaping the Future of Business Operations: Turning Threat into Opportunity

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As the fourth wave of COVID surges, businesses are left, once again, wondering what to expect in regards to their staff, clients, office space, and more. In Season 2, Episode 5, Adams and Reese’s Managing Partner, Gif...more

Franczek P.C.

Remote Learning Redux

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Last week, ISBE published long-awaited guidance related to remote learning for the 2021-2022 school year. We have been anticipating this guidance since early in the summer when ISBE announced that school would, with limited...more

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Leaders Moving Business Forward with Shirmila Ramasamy of the World Bank

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The World Bank is providing more than $4 billion to purchase and deploy COVID-19 vaccines in 51 developing countries.?In our latest Leaders Moving Business Forward video, the World Bank's Shirmila Ramasamy discusses...more

ArentFox Schiff

Is Delta Taking Over?

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On February 24, 2021, we first reported on the most significant variants of the novel coronavirus then emerging across the globe and here in the United States. In that Alert, we included the prediction by the Centers for...more

Morgan Lewis

New York State Updates COVID-19 Office Rules as Vaccination Numbers Continue to Rise

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On June 8, 2021, the New York State Department of Health released updated interim guidance for office-based workplaces that removes significant prior restrictions. This new guidance comes on the heels of Governor Andrew...more

Baker Donelson

[Webinar] Distanced Inclusion in the Workplace: How to Champion Diversity and Inclusion During a Global Pandemic - May 20th, 8:30...

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Join Baker Donelson shareholder and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Mark Baugh as he discusses how to maintain and champion a culture of diversity and inclusion in the workplace when many employees are working from...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Crisis and Risk Management Survey 2020 Summary of Findings

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To learn more about the current state of crisis and risk management, Bennett Jones commissioned an independent survey by Environics to understand what corporate concerns are most pressing for Canadian general counsel and...more

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New York set to require new workplace health and safety protections

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On April 21, 2021, both houses of the New York Legislature announced passage of the NY Hero Act, which will require employers to implement extensive new workplace health and safety protections in response to the COVID-19...more

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Pandemic numbers do add up — to a complex and persistent health menace

An Ohio congressman got testy with one of the nation’s leading infectious disease experts, insisting that Dr. Anthony Fauci instantly cough up a metric to tell politicians and the public exactly when the coronavirus pandemic...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Betriebsschließungen wegen COVID-19

Erste Gerichtsentscheidungen bejahen Lohnfortzahlungspflicht des Arbeitgebers - 1. DIE FRAGE DES BETRIEBSRISIKOS, § 615 S. 3 BGB - Ob der Arbeitgeber die Gehälter seiner Arbeitnehmer selbst dann weiterbezahlen muss,...more

International Lawyers Network

Nine Leadership Lessons Learned in a Pandemic

A pandemic is a strange time to be a leader. It’s both terrifying, because you, as much as everyone else, have no idea what’s going to happen, but you have to put on a brave face to instill confidence and it’s, in some ways,...more

U.S. Legal Support

A Look at ABA Ethics Opinion 498 and What it Means for Your Firm

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began approximately a year ago, millions of lawyers across the United States very quickly went from working in an office to working elsewhere. Home, a home office, a spare bedroom, their dining...more

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New ISBE/IDPH Guidance Supports Reducing Social Distancing for In-Person Instruction

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It is hard to believe that it has been nine months since the Illinois State Board of Education and Illinois Department of Public Health issued their Part 3 – Transition Joint Guidance, “Starting the 2020-2021 School Year.”...more

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U.S. must take more honest shot at battling this pandemic

As the nation recoils from the deadly insurrectionist attack on Congress and the United States Capitol, a direct line also must be drawn to the huge health harms that President Trump and his administration incited with a...more

BCLP

Post-2020 Board Self-Evaluations - COVID and Beyond

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As boards prepare for the post-2020 round of self-evaluations, they will need to make the usual decisions regarding timing, scope and construct (e.g., written questionnaires and/or interviews), among others. But this year,...more

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Coronavirus vaccinations lag behind plan as experts track contagious variant

Even as medical scientists have detected a new, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus that also may pose greater risks to children, the high hopes for a faultless roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines are getting...more

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Oregon OSHA Issues Sample Materials for Required Employee Training and Releases Delayed Enforcement Memorandum

Oregon OSHA has just released a series of materials, including sample training materials, to help employers comply with OR-OSHA’s temporary workplace safety rules related to COVID-19. The new materials are summarized below....more

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