On January 15, 2021, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) approved revisions to the EEOC’s Compliance Manual Section on Religious Discrimination. The updated guidance…
Gauravjit Singh, 26, has been charged in connection with a $700,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud scheme. Beginning in May 2020, in the midst of…
In the midst of responding to COVID-19, the healthcare sector faced a significant number of ransomware attacks in 2020 with 560 healthcare provider facilities falling…
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will exercise its enforcement discretion and…
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it secured a record amount of recovery for victims of discrimination while continuing to provide…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two new training events on January 13, 2021. They are both web-based: “Section M: Skin Conditions-Assessment…
The effort to vaccinate some of the country’s most vulnerable residents against covid-19 has been slowed by a federal program that sends retail pharmacists into…
An emergency room nurse at Stroger Hospital is said to have taken and used equipment and IV solution outside the hospital without a physician’s approval…
New York is going to reallocate unused COVID-19 vaccines that had been earmarked for nursing homes — with tens of thousands of staffers at the…
In a US nationally representative survey that included responses from 471 hospital-SNF pairs about information sharing, SNFs reported that key information was often missing (functional,…