Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
      
		    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently confirmed that Medicare contractors will not calculate an average length of stay for long-term care hospitals for cost reporting periods that include the COVID-19 public health emergency, which took effect March 1. 
  
  Nearly 20 health care provider organizations, including the AHA, urged Congress to enact legislation to clarify that relief funds provided through the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund and other programs as part of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic are exempt from…  
  COVID-19 Update for Rural Hospitals and Health Systems 
 
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			The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s lives in many ways, including how we grieve death. For most, typical rituals, such as hospital visitations, final goodbyes and funerals, have been taken away due to necessary social distancing. 
  
  White Plains Hospital works with community partners to address food insecurity and other health and social needs of its neighbors.
  
  The AHA Resource Center has created these ‘live’ searches to the latest research articles on COVID-19.
  
  Please join AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels June 30 at 2 p.m. ET for a special live presentation as part of an AHA Virtual Advocacy Day. They will give the latest updates on the next COVID-19 relief package and provide resources and ways you can…  
  The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response June 26 at 1 p.m. ET will host the next webinar in its series ”Securing the Health Sector,” which will focus on “COVID-19 and the Use of Thermal Detection Cameras in the Healthcare…  
  The Food and Drug Administration has partnered with the Critical Path Institute and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to launch the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, a forum for exchanging clinical practice data to inform potential new uses for existing drugs to treat unmet…  
  The AHA urged Congress to revise the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package to reflect new insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect of recent post-acute care payment system reforms. 
  
