The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (nursing homes; State and local officials)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Recommendations to State and local officials; survey authority
- Issued
- 2020-05-18 May 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-18
- End
- 2021-03-10 (expired on revision of QSO-20-39-NH) (read as 2021-03-10)
- In force
- May 18, 2020 to Mar. 10, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitGathering capHealth care orders
- Addressees
- State and local officials; State Survey Agencies; nursing homes
- Functions reached
- VS visitation phases
- DN communal dining and group activities by phase
- HR non-essential personnel entry by phase (salons, therapy, volunteers)
- RS admissions
- Collection
- Federal health, safety and transport layer FED-A
Operative words
Recommendations for State and Local Officials: CMS is providing recommendations to help determine the level of mitigation needed to prevent the transmission of COVID19 in nursing homes. The recommendations cover the following items: Criteria for relaxing certain restrictions and mitigating the risk of resurgence: Factors to inform decisions for relaxing nursing home restrictions through a phased approach. Visitation and Service Considerations: Considerations allowing visitation and services in each phase.... Given the critical importance in limiting COVID-19 exposure in nursing homes, decisions on relaxing restrictions should be made with careful review of a number of facility-level, community, and State factors/orders
Enforcement
Recommendations; implemented by State orders and directives and by survey
Notes
The federal three-phase reopening template for nursing homes (baseline testing, 28-day case-free intervals) that State health departments adopted by order in summer 2020; pleaded with the State orders that made it mandatory.
Retrieval noteLive file is the Mar. 10, 2021 revised/expired posting; the May 18, 2020 text is recited in it.