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FDA Updates
01/17/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates and activities: FDA Warns Health Care Professionals Not to Use Ep...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Advisory is informing clinicians and laboratories of sporadic human infections with avia...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Clinical Lab

On June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect workers in healthcare settings, finding that COVID-19 presented a grave...

Sources:
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has declared that an emergency exists in the state of California and U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights recently published a Dear Colleague Letter with guidance on obligations under...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued new guidance about obligations under the disability pr...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Assisted Living,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Behavioral Health - Outpatient,
  • Dialysis Facilities,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Community Mental Health Centers,
  • All Healthcare Organizations,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Office-Based Surgery,
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
  • Clinical Lab,
  • Pharmacy,
  • Behavioral Health - Inpatient,
  • Hospice,
  • Rural Health Clinics
FDA Updates
01/07/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Srug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: FDA Requires Guillain-Barré Syndrome...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an update regarding Condition of Participation (COP) § 484.50 for Hom...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Home Health
FDA Updates
01/03/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Early Alert: Solution Set Issue from Baxter...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement requiring all LongTerm Care (LTC) facilities to report COVID-19 information using the...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Long Term Care

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights has published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) modifying...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services,
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations
FDA Updates
12/30/2024

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: FDA Recommends Changes to Labeling for...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

As a part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) CY25 Home Health Prospective Payment System Payment Rate Update there is a new requi...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Home Health

The Joint Commission has approved new and revised workplace violence prevention requirements for their assisted living, nursing care center, and ...

Sources:
  • The Joint Commission
Relevant To:
  • Assisted Living,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Office-Based Surgery

The StayAlert! Team wishes you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season and a bright New Year!...

Sources:
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations