Long-term care operators will continue their frontline battles against the spread of COVID-19 while awaiting the imminent arrival of their first round of funding from huge federal stimulus measures. The “spigot,” as one association leader put it, could open as soon as today.
Meanwhile, clinicians will immediately begin exercising more latitude to examine and treat patients in nursing homes and other settings under rules loosened late this week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Long-term care providers, as well as many others in healthcare settings, also look forward to an increased flow of personal protective equipment onto the market at some point in the very near future. There will be no more coming from federal stockpiles, which for all intents and purposes have been depleted, officials said this week.
