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Health Care: Ebola Advisory For Health Care Facilities and Providers (10/14)

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Yesterday, the CDC issued revised guidance ("Guidance") detailing personal protective equipment (PPE) standards, including donning and doffing PPE, for all healthcare workers entering the room of a patient hospitalized with...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Protecting Healthcare and Other Employees From Ebola

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News that a U.S. based health-care worker in Dallas has contracted Ebola while caring for a patient with the disease has raised questions about the protections that health care facilities and other employers must provide for...more

Baker Donelson

New Federal Fire Safety Regulations Could Mean Changes for Health Care Facilities

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On April 16, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published proposed rules that would amend the fire safety standards for hospitals, long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, hospice inpatient...more

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Failure To Maintain Automatic Sprinkler Systems In Nursing Homes Now Leads To Survey Citations And More

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As of August 13, 2013, all nursing homes participating in Medicare or Medicaid must have automatic sprinkler systems installed throughout the building. CMS first established the sprinkler requirement in a final rule published...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Protect "Thy" Workplace: OSHA Cites Employer Under General Duty Clause in Fatal Stabbing of Home Healthcare Worker

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a citation to Integra Health Management, Inc., finding that the company violated the Occupational Safety and Health Act in connection with the stabbing...more

Snell & Wilmer

Malware in the Machines: Cybersecurity for Medical Devices and Hospital Networks

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Within the last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a pair of Safety Communications directed towards the medical device and healthcare industries regarding cybersecurity. Computer virus and other malware...more

Carlton Fields

Medical Malpractice Update - Spring 2013

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I. 2013 Medical Malpractice Reform Legislation - In less than a month, the way medical malpractice cases are handled in Florida will change significantly....more

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Enterprise Risk Management: The benefits of online policy and procedure management systems

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ABSTRACT - Operational inefficiencies, sub-optimal patient care, financial losses and missing or ineffective sanctions for non-compliance are all potential outcomes that can stem from passive policy and procedure management....more

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