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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Supreme Court Ruling Permits CMS Vaccine Mandate for Employees of Healthcare Facilities to Become Effective

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On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccination...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Biden Administration Orders Long Term Care Facilities to Require COVID-19 Vaccinations To Receive Federal Funds; OSHA Issues...

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As we have previously written, the landscape for employers in the time of COVID-19, particularly healthcare employers and long term care facilities, is ever-changing and quickly moving. In the last year, healthcare employers...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

OSHA Puts Healthcare Employers on Alert After Issuing Penalties for Willful Citations

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An alarm bell has sounded for healthcare facilities as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues two Willful COVID-19 Citations with nearly $300,000 in proposed penalties. On August 4th, OSHA...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Promises Implementation and Compliance Challenges for Long-Term Care Facilities

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), on June 10, 2021, released a long-anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) to protect workers that provide healthcare and healthcare support services from...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

OSHA Issues COVID-19 Respiratory Protection Guidance For Long Term Care Facilities

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OSHA has issued guidance on personal protective equipment (“PPE”) and respiratory protection use in nursing home and long term care facilities (collectively “LTCFs”) to protect against COVID-19. In its recently issued...more

Ruder Ware

OSHA Issues New Guidance on Respiratory Protection in Long-Term Care Facilities

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a respiratory protection guidance for nursing homes, assisted living, and other long-term care facilities (LTCF) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This guidance...more

Baker Donelson

OSHA Expected to Issue More COVID-19 Citations in Light of Recent Lawsuit

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has increased pressure on health care facilities, and long term care providers specifically, by issuing COVID-19-related citations and initiating COVID-19-related...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

What Long-Term Care Providers Don’t Know About Respiratory PPE Can Prove Costly

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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust many long-term care providers, including nursing home, assisted living, and other health care providers, into uncharted waters, forcing them to secure adequate supplies of personal protective...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends, Issue 9

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This ninth edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, continues to be dominated by shutdown challenges and workplace injury and wrongful death claims. But as governments discuss contact...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

CDC and OSHA Issue COVID-19 Guidance for the Nursing Home Industry

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA issues specific guidance related to COVID-19 policies, administrative controls, engineering controls, personal protective equipment, and face masks....more

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