Home Care Legislative Package Introduced in Senate for Workforce Training, Advancement Opportunities12/9/2020 ![]() Last week, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) introduced three legislative proposals to improve the quality of home care by providing additional support and advancement opportunities for home care providers. HCAOA is scheduling a meeting to discuss the bills with Senator King, since they will need to be reintroduced in January and we can have some input on any changes.
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![]() Since March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that individuals exposed to someone with COVID-19 self-quarantine for 14 days from the date of exposure. Last week, the CDC issued its much-anticipated updated guidance suggesting that, depending on “local circumstances and resources,” individuals may be able to exit self-quarantine sooner than 14 days. ![]() The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has outlined comprehensive steps to provide care to patients outside a traditional hospital setting amid COVID-19 hospitalizations across the country. These flexibilities include allowances for safe hospital care for eligible patients in their homes and updated staffing flexibility designed to allow ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) to provide greater inpatient care when needed. Building on CMS’s previous actions to expand the availability of telehealth across the nation, these actions are aimed at allowing health care services to be provided outside a hospital setting while maintaining capacity to continue critical non-COVID-19 care. HCAOA joined a coalition of the nation’s leading home care and hospice organizations to send a letter yesterday supporting draft recommendations pending before the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on the prioritization of vaccine access. Home care and hospice staff of all disciplines are included in the first group (Phase 1a) to access to the COVID-19 vaccine since the workforce is properly included in ACIP’s definition of health care workers.
While the U.S. presidential election has come to an end, Littler continues to monitor changes in the Trump administration’s handling of ongoing agency immigration reforms through the end of 2020 and into early 2021 that may impact employers’ ability to sponsor foreign workers on visas.
ILLINOIS: Chapter Joins Coalition to Urge Health Department to Prioritize Home Care in Vaccine Plan12/2/2020 ![]() The HCAOA Illinois Chapter teamed up this week with the Illinois Association of Community Care Program Homecare Providers (IACCPHP) and the Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council (IHHC) to pen a letter to the Illinois Department of Public Health urging the department ensure that home care workers providing are prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine. Click here to view the letter. ![]() If you’ve not already done so, please take a few minutes to review and update your organization’s profile on the NEW HCAOA website. Click here to set up your web credentials on the new site. During a recent webinar with HCAOA, Bobbie Warner RN, BSN, Director of Education with Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP), outlined the top 10 deficiencies for home care agencies under current private duty standards. Click here to learn more.
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