Long-Term Care Facilities: CMS Flexibilities To Fight COVID-19

On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued temporary regulatory waivers and new rules for Long-Term Care Facilities to equip the American health care system with maximum flexibility to respond to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The goals of these actions are to 1) to ensure that local hospitals and health systems have the capacity to handle a potential surge of COVID-19 consumers through temporary expansion sites (also known as CMS Hospital Without Walls); 2) remove barriers for physicians, nurses, and other clinicians to be readily hired from the community or from . . .