Lucky. Blessed. Fortunate.
Those were words used by medical staff at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center on Monday after they were the first people in New Mexico to receive Pfizerâs long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine.
The five staff members were greeted with a round of applause from fellow health care professionals following inoculations in a conference room at the hospital.
A total of 112 Christus St. Vincent staff members received the first shot of the two-part vaccine by the end of the day as the state launched what is expected to be a months-long campaign to provide vaccines to residents across New Mexico.
CMS waiver for hospital-at-home designed to address COVID-19-driven capacity issues Save Print
CMS quietly expanded the “Hospital Without Walls” initiative. It hosted an informational webinar Acute Hospital Care at Home on Dec. 1.
The initiative makes available a waiver of the Medicare Conditions of Participation that nursing services be provided on premises 24/7 and requires the immediate availability of a registered nurse for the care of any patient.
This is not a blanket waiver but will allow individual qualifying hospitals to receive inpatient payment for providing acute level services to Medicare beneficiaries in their homes.
Requiring the immediate availability of a registered nurse for the care of any patient.
Jack Healy, Amy Harmon and Simon Romero, The New York Times
Published: 14 Dec 2020 11:24 AM BdST
Updated: 14 Dec 2020 11:24 AM BdST Dr Jesse Breidenbach, the senior executive director of pharmacy for Sanford Health, in the medical lab at the Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, ND, on Sunday on Dec 13, 2020. The Sanford hospital in Fargo has converted its Veterans Club into a vaccination site, and officials said they were poised to start inoculating a first group of emergency and critical-care doctors and nurses within hours after the vaccine arrived. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times)
Trucks and cargo planes packed with the first of nearly 3 million doses of coronavirus vaccine fanned out across the country Sunday as hospitals rushed to set up injection sites and their anxious workers tracked each shipment hour by hour.
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Recent regulatory actions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to pay for hospital care outside of traditional inpatient sites were welcomed by some physician groups.
The policy updates will reimburse hospitals to provide in-home, hospital-level telehealth care for patients with acute conditions and will pay for both inpatient and outpatient care in ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) temporarily designated as hospitals.
The actions allow health systems to safely care for these patients in nontraditional locations, away from patients being treated for COVID-19. The new programs will also conserve critical bed space for COVID-19 patients who need immediate treatment.
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