CMS COVID-19 Long-Term Care Facility Guidance

On April 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new recommendations to State and local governments and long-term care facilities (also known as nursing homes) to help mitigate the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Both entities provide a number of recommendations to ensure compliance and reduce the spread and severity of the illness . . .