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President Donald Trump‘s administration has been warning states in a number of memorandums since as early as Feb. 6 to prepare the nation’s nursing homes for the COVID-19 threat, KCP has learned.
The documented proof of Trump administration and warnings and declarations was presented yesterday following the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement of new regulatory requirements that will require nursing homes to inform residents, their families and representatives of COVID-19 cases in their facilities.
In addition, as part of Trump’s Opening Up America, CMS will now require nursing homes to report cases of COVID-19 directly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This information must be reported in accordance with existing privacy regulations and statute. This measure augments longstanding requirements for reporting infectious disease to State and local health departments. Finally, CMS will also require nursing homes to fully cooperate with CDC surveillance efforts around COVID-19 spread.
“Nursing homes have been ground zero for COVID-19. Today’s action supports CMS’ longstanding commitment to providing transparent and timely information to residents and their families,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “Nursing home reporting to the CDC is a critical component of the go-forward national COVID-19 surveillance system and to efforts to reopen America.”
The CMS first memorandum issued on February 6, warned healthcare facilities to the threat of the 2019-Novel Coronavirus and advised health care providers and State Survey Agencies (SAs), the entities that inspect healthcare facilities, including nursing homes, to ensure compliance with current CMS requirements and safety standards.
11 comments:
NYC_69 said...
Orangeman good ! Dems bad...
AMeRicAn FiRst SAid...
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QC READER said...
Thank you JQ LLC for all the work you do on this Blog site.
Are you going to post anything on the "BIG" story in Prospect Park from @DarrenGoldner ?
His site was removed from Twitter ?
@QC reader.
That tweet is still there.
Apparently that guy got what he and the bike lobby Transportation Alternatives wanted. And even more. I'll post it soon.
Nursing home followed the guidelines, they just didn't work.
How do you move staff out when there aren't enough tests to test patients.
Where do you move them? You can't send them to hospitals.
So yeah, sorry federal government, "you issued guidelines" and are now trying to cover your butts and blame, blame , blame. It was everyone else, not us.
QC Reader said...
New York Post Michael Goodwin
More blood on Gov. Cuomo’s hands amid nursing home coronavirus crisis !
Why didn't the Idiot Gov. Cuomo use all the empty beds he had that were never used ?
Speaking on Nursing Homes Cumo said Near the end of his news conference.
1. He called them “ground zero” for the virus.
2. “It just takes one [infected] person to walk in there and then it is fire through dry grass.”
3. The Department of Health order, dated March 25, decreed that nursing homes and rehab centers could not use a positive COVID-19 test as the sole basis for rejecting a patient being referred from hospitals. Fearing state regulators, many facility executives say they accepted the transfers even though they believed the order was a death sentence for some existing patients and staff.
And I thought Trump spent most of February admiring himself in the mirror and fiddling with his phone. Dear Leader has such a talent for re-writing history. Wonderful leader for an ungrateful country. 12 more years !!!
Tuck Frump that mobster POS
Don't give Trump too much credit for this, those agencies did what they were supposed to do and our mayor and governor still ignored it, which is actually the bigger scandal.
Trump made accessing the triage hospitals more difficult for Covid19 patients that needed isolation(Comfort, Javits and Aqueduct), and now Cuomo is conveniently citing that to deflect blame for his own stupid decisions (Matilda's law)
All these politicians are all working together to escape blame for their negligence, complacency and incompetence.
Ragdoll reader said...
"Don't give Trump too much credit for this !"
Yes Master you own me !
In November I won’t remind you it didn’t matter and he won again.
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