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or Phase 2 focuses on getting all staff members vaccinated with their second or final vaccine dose (e.g.,for single shot vaccines), while accommodating/granting protectedexemptions and delays due to medical issues. The Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers could spark an uptick in litigation challenging the denial of medical and religious exemptions to the controversial rule. Percentages less than 100% are considered non-compliant and these facilities will receive an enforcement notice. On November 4, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an emergency regulation entitled "CMS Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Interim Final Rule" (CMS rule) which requires certain employers who are certified under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to issue a policy requiring all employees to be vaccinated In an interim final rule released Nov. 5, the agency laid out the organizations that are exempt from the mandate. =4%_j{'B5 /^]5Mj`.VkAp)"#s}=}M x8L'2,oZBc\ rtzrd 'E*.^"1uBz`Xv_Ndnd'OKJJpLE
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g$rtft^1z/0y#}K. They can freely accept religious exemption requests, no matter their validity, and still be compliant in the eyes of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, several labor and employment lawyers said. The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vaccine Rule: 6 Things to Know Right Now, More Rehab in Acute Care Leads to Reduced Readmission Rates Post-Hip Fracture, The End of the Public Health Emergency: What You Need to Know, Study Looks at Symptom Profiles of Long COVID, Fibromyalgia, and CFS, For Advertisers, Exhibitors, and Sponsors. Matt Walker, CEO of William Bee Ririe Hospital in a remote eastern Nevada mountain town called Ely, said 28 of his employees have been granted exemptions from the mandate, or about 15 percent. 0000000016 00000 n
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lock But it also created an incentive, I hoped, that would encourage them. 0=',U 4v0uc)M9 A: CMS expects that staff will receive a vaccine licensed or authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which currently includes the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (interchangeable with the licensed Comirnaty vaccine), Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, and the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine.
PDF Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Interim Final Rule - CMS COVID-19 CMS Vaccination Requirements - Exemptions. The AMA leads the charge on public health. Android, The best in medicine, delivered to your mailbox. The remedy for noncompliance among hospitals and certain other acute and continuing care providers is termination. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued an interim final rule requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for workers in most health care settings, including hospitals and health systems, that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. 0000032247 00000 n
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