On Thursday, September 9, the Biden administration released a six-pronged comprehensive COVID-19 Action Plan which contains a national strategy to combat the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plan includes a section titled Requiring COVID-19 Vaccinations for over 17 Million Health Care Workers at Medicare and Medicaid Participating Hospitals and Other Health Care Settings. The section states that CMS will take “action to require COVID-19 vaccinations for workers in most health care settings, including ambulatory surgical settings.” The requirement applies to all staff – clinical, non-patient facing, volunteers, and third-party contractors. The official requirement will come via an interim final rule with a comment period (IFC) in October. View the full CMS press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The action plan also announces a requirement for all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or produce a negative test result on a weekly basis. This requirement will be issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n QUAD A will continue to update members as the details of the new requirements are announced.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday, September 9, the Biden administration released a six-pronged comprehensive COVID-19 Action Plan which contains a national strategy to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The plan includes a section titled Requiring COVID-19 Vaccinations for over 17 Million Health Care Workers at Medicare and Medicaid Participating Hospitals and Other Health Care Settings. The section […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-announcements","category-covid-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7107,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/7107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}