AHA Voices Support for the Rural America Health Corps Act
The American Hospital Association (AHA) voiced support for bipartisan legislation that would create a Rural America Health Corps modeled on the National Health Service Corps...
CDC Alert on the Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities
​On March 20th, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released information regarding an emerging fungus, Candida auris (C. auris), considered an urgent...
Agencies Recommend Action to Protect Against LockBit Ransomware Variant
The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center recently provided actionable intelligence and encouraged organizations to implement recommendations...
Loan Repayment for Health Professionals
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) has opened the application cycle for three programs. Eligible clinicians providing primary medical, dental, or behavioral health care services or evidence-based substance use disorder treatment can...
Tell Congress to “Get Real on Ratios” in Nursing Homes
​The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is poised to issue a rule imposing a federal minimum staffing mandate on nursing homes. We...
CMS Updates the Public Health Emergency Fact Sheet
On February 27, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an updated fact sheet to help healthcare entities prepare for the end...
Congress Must Act: Staffing Ratios for Nursing Homes Must be Realistic
As part of the Biden Administration’s nursing home care initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is poised to issue a rule...
OCR: HIPAA Breaches Down, Compliance Complaints Up in 2021
HIPAA-covered entities reported 609 breaches of unsecured protected health information in calendar year 2021, 7% fewer than in 2020, the Department of Health and...
Changes to Prescribing Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Effectively immediately, the federal requirement to have a waiver (DATA X-waiver/Notice of Intent) to prescribe medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD),...
HHS Releases Guide to Prevent Denial-of-Service Attacks, Cyberthreat Year-in-Review
​The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) yesterday released a guide to help health care organizations protect their...
