{"id":1061,"date":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehealthworkforcehub.org\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:00:00","slug":"cms-issues-recommendations-to-re-open-health-care-systems-in-areas-with-low-incidence-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/cms-issues-recommendations-to-re-open-health-care-systems-in-areas-with-low-incidence-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Issues Recommendations to Re-Open Health Care Systems in Areas with Low Incidence of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 21, 2020 &#8212; The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services issued new recommendations to update earlier guidance provided by CMS on limiting non-essential surgeries and medical procedures. The new CMS guidelines recommend a gradual transition and encourage health care providers to coordinate with local and state public health officials, and to review the availability of&nbsp;personal protective equipment (PPE)&nbsp;and&nbsp;other supplies,&nbsp;workforce availability,&nbsp;facility readiness, and&nbsp;<strong>testing capacity&nbsp;<\/strong>when making the decision to re-start or increase in-person care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDYsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA0MjAuMjAzNTk1NzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5jbXMuZ292L2ZpbGVzL2RvY3VtZW50L2NvdmlkLWZsZXhpYmlsaXR5LXJlb3Blbi1lc3NlbnRpYWwtbm9uLWNvdmlkLXNlcnZpY2VzLnBkZiJ9.JGDBW5fVYkUy3b570WOA776Bgkmi10S7a14MsXAefTE\/br\/77597329035-l\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/covid-flexibility-reopen-essential-non-covid-services.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, 2020 &#8212; The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services issued new recommendations to update earlier guidance provided by CMS on limiting non-essential surgeries and medical procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-employers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}