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Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
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Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Joy Campbell announced a $4 million settlement with Next Step Healthcare, LLC (Next Step), a Massachusetts-based long-term care management company, in a deal that the AG described as...more
Maryland's highest court announced on August 30, 2023, that a health care employee who claims to have "blown the whistle" on their employer's alleged misconduct must satisfy the "but for" standard of causation to prevail on a...more
News Briefs - Biden Executive Order Aims to Bolster AI Security in Healthcare - The Biden Administration issued what it's calling a "landmark" executive order designed to help channel the significant promise and manage the...more
On June 30, 2023, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) issued a notice to nursing home operators and administrators announcing that it will begin conducting assessments on July 10, 2023 of nursing homes’ compliance...more
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
With the end of California's COVID-19 state of emergency on February 28, 2023, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently announced updates to its COVID-19 guidance that include the following significant...more
On March 3, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced sweeping changes to its COVID-19 guidance related to masking, vaccination, and isolation after a positive COVID-19 test. Most significantly, as of April...more
A New York State Supreme Court Justice recently ruled the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers is “null, void and of no effect.” Justice Gerard Neri ruled the state overstepped its authority by...more
Join Manatt for the Third of Our Imperatives Deep-Dive Sessions on the Topics You Voted Most Important to You. Safety net and rural hospitals—critical components of our public health system—face overwhelming challenges...more
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, recently issued an advisory regarding the current health worker burnout crisis, which has resulted in a significant number of resignations and staffing shortages. The advisory...more
In January 2021, Manatt Health described the ten health care imperatives essential for improving our health care system and advancing health equity in the 2020s. Now two years into the decade, we have released our 2022...more
Australia has a high uptake of vaccination to COVID-19, partly due to enforceable public health orders at State level which require classes of workers to be vaccinated if they are to work outside of their home. As at the...more
One of the most significant provisions of the American Rescue Plan was the establishment of the $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF or Fiscal Recovery Funds)....more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion last week for a preliminary injunction filed by health care workers who object to a New York state COVID-19 vaccination mandate. The New York mandate contains medical...more
As directed by President Biden in September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its interim final rule on November 4, 2021 mandating COVID-19 vaccines for a broad group of health care workers....more
Over the weekend, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted legislation that significantly restricts private businesses and public schools from taking certain protective measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The law, which...more
In early September 2021, a group of current and former employees of St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Kentucky filed suit challenging St. Elizabeth’s vaccine mandate for its employees. In the case of Beckerich v. St. Elizabeth...more
On May 28, 2021, a group of Houston Methodist Hospital employees filed a lawsuit challenging the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees. The lawsuit, filed by 117 employees, was the first to challenge a health...more
Both the State of Colorado and the City of Denver have recently issued mandatory vaccine policies for certain segments of worker populations – and your organization may be soon required to enforce such a mandate. While the...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
The worst public health crisis in a century has brought with it some swiftly changing coronavirus health measures, and many by now are reacting with weary exasperation, asking: “Why can’t doctors get it straight? Why do they...more
On August 16, 2021, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that all healthcare workers in New York State are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate is applicable to staff at hospitals and long-term...more
On August 26, 2021, the Public Health and Health Planning Council approved an emergency regulation requiring health care personnel to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The emergency regulation is effective immediately and...more
Governor Inslee and Washington’s Department of Health have been busy the past two weeks modifying existing mask rules and enacting new vaccine requirements for certain classes of healthcare workers. There has been enough...more
Mask Mandate - Effective August 23, 2021, masks will once again be required in indoor public spaces in Washington, regardless of vaccination status, for everyone over the age of five. Masks will not be required for...more