As the COVID-19 emergency ends, the U.S. health system will change. Training rules for nursing home staffs will get stricter, infectious-disease surveillance will splinter and treatment for people suffering from addiction may be threatened.
The changes will be triggered in many cases by a return to federal rules that were in place before COVID-19 emerged.
Advocates for nursing home residents are eager to see the old, tougher training requirements reinstated, but the industry says that move could worsen staffing shortages plaguing facilities nationwide. Nurse aides often provide the most direct and labor-intensive care for residents, including bathing and other hygiene-related tasks, feeding, monitoring vital signs, and keeping rooms clean. Research has shown that nursing homes withAdvocates for nursing home residents are pleased the training exceptions will end but fear that the quality of care could nevertheless deteriorate.
David Herzberg, a drug historian at the University at Buffalo, said the DEA’s approach reflects a fundamental challenge in developing drug policy: meeting the needs of people who rely on a drug that can be abused without making that drug too readily available to others.Hospitals return to normal, somewhat
Other changes during the public health emergency were meant to bolster hospital capacity. Critical access hospitals, small hospitals in rural areas, didn’t have to comply with federal rules for Medicare stating they were limited to 25 inpatient beds and patients’ stays could not exceed 96 hours, on average.federal officials to maintain multiple COVID-19-era policies beyond the emergency or work with Congress to change the law.
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