Biden Unveils COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy By Alicia Ault
Jan. 15, 2021 President-elect Joseph R. Biden unveiled a plan to jump-start the nation’s faltering COVID-19 vaccine effort that will include establishing mass vaccination sites and mobile vaccine clinics around the country.
Biden has promised that his administration will vaccinate 100 million people during the first 100 days. “I’m convinced we can get it done,” Biden said during a speech Friday. “This is a time to set big goals and to pursue them with courage and conviction because the health of the nation is at stake,” he said.
The $20 billion plan is part of a $400 billion COVID response that’s contained in a proposed $1.9 trillion COVID relief package. If approved by Congress, it would provide vaccines to all Americans with zero cost-sharing.
AUSTIN, TEXAS The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
® (AANP) applauds the U.S. Surgeon General’s selection of Loretta C. Ford, EdD, RN, PNP, NP-C, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, as the recipient of the Surgeon General’s Medallion. The Medallion, the third highest honor granted by the Public Health Service and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps , is awarded by the Surgeon General for actions of exceptional achievement to the cause of public health and medicine. Dr. Ford, who will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 28, 2020, co-founded the first NP program at the University of Colorado and created a profession that is integral to our nation’s health care infrastructure.
San Antonio-based Army North dispatches medical personnel to New Mexico
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U.S. Army North said Wednesday it was deploying military medical personnel to battle the coronavirus pandemic in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
It sent elements of Task Force 51, a deployable command post, to Farmington on Friday. Only days earlier, the command ordered military medical specialists to four hospitals in Wisconsin. Some in those task forces came from San Antonio.
Army North, the Joint Force Land Component Command of U.S Northern Command, will oversee a military operation that will bring 25 Navy personnel who are part of four Rapid Rural Response teams.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pushing ahead in its Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care with a new proposed rule, announced by HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on December 10, to modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule. This proposed rule follows HHS’ 2018 Request for Information on Modifying HIPAA Rules to Improve Coordinated Care (RFI), which sought to identify regulatory impediments to value-based care presented by HIPAA, and comes on the heels of HHS’ recent changes to the rules implementing the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law.
With this proposed rule, HHS aims to “reduce burden on providers and support new ways for them to innovate and coordinate care on behalf of patients, while ensuring that [HHS] uphold[s] HIPAA’s promise of privacy and security,” according to HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan. It would achieve these objectives through a variety of updates to the Privacy Rule, which
With the first doses of a vaccine likely to be administered in Montana next week, and optimistic signs that the spread of the novel coronavirus has slowed here, Gov. Steve