Food Safety, COVID-19 Precautions For Thanksgiving and Travel Mitigation Effort
Employee Health Screening How-To Webinar & Demo of Fever Free App
Ensure your community is healthy before they interact, with virtual AI-verified temperature and symptom checks. Learn more about how the Fever Free app is the safest, most efficient, and cost effective solution for organizations of any type and size. Stay in compliance with your workplace health screening protocols while giving your community back its peace of mind. This webinar will cover a real-time demonstration about how the app works, tons of Q&A, and an RCPA member testimonial!
- Here is an example of a healthy prescreening check!
- Here is an example of a failed prescreening check!
Register here to participate.
USDA Celebrates National Rural Health Day
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is recognizing National Rural Health Day today to applaud the many contributions of rural communities and address the unique challenges that they face in accessing and delivering healthcare services. To celebrate, we are highlighting ways that we are working with rural leaders and our partners to increase access to critical healthcare across rural America. Learn more below.
USDA Leadership Discusses Rural Healthcare:
- Using Technology to Improve Rural Healthcare
- USDA Helping to Increase Rural Residents’ Access to Healthcare
Real Stories of Small Towns Undergoing Big Changes:
- Telemedicine Technologies in Rural Washington Spark Long-Term Advancement in Health Care Delivery
- Pioneering Innovative Healthcare Services and Infrastructure for Rural Areas
- There’s No Place Like the Peabody Home
Do you need help accessing rural healthcare funding opportunities?
- Check out the Special Edition Innovation Matters newsletter.
For more information about National Rural Health Day, visit this webpage.
OLTL Schedules Additional Act 24 Cost Reporting Webinar for Non-Nursing Facility Providers
The Office of Long-Term Living (OLTL) will be holding a second webinar on December 1, 2020 from 9:00 am – 11:00 am to provide information on the Act 24 cost reports and give agencies providing personal assistance, residential habilitation, and adult day services a chance to ask questions. Personal care homes and assisted living residences are also invited to attend. The first webinar, scheduled for November 20, 2020, reached capacity, demonstrating the interest in this topic. As a result, OLTL has scheduled another webinar to provide an opportunity for providers to participate.
The due date for the final report is December 21, 2020. No interim report is due for non-nursing facility providers.
Members interested in participating in this webinar must register as soon as possible as there is again a maximum capacity of 500 participants per webinar. Please limit attendance to no more than two individuals per organization. The session will be recorded, and the recording and material covered during the webinar will be made available online.
The Excel reporting template is provided for reference. Questions regarding Act 24 reporting can be sent here.
December MLTSS Subcommittee Meeting Agenda
The Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) Subcommittee meeting agenda for the December 4, 2020 meeting has been released. The meeting is scheduled for 10:00 am – 1:00 pm and will be held via webcast. The information to participate is available below:
Webinar Link
Public Call-In Number: 1-415-655-0060 Pin: 570-909-331
Remote Streaming Link
The following documents were provided after the November 4 MLTSS meeting:
With Dire Report from The White House, State Issues Four New COVID-19 Orders to Limit Spread
Some Additional COVID-19 “Targeted Efforts” Announced by the PA Health Department
On Tuesday, State Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine announced additional “targeted efforts” to slow the spread of COVID-19. However, most of the “efforts”, the department acknowledged, still come down to people choosing to do what the department is telling them to do.
Acute care hospitals were sent a memo from Levine outlining expectations to care for Pennsylvanians who need care. However, those expectations seem to be no different from those under which the state’s health care systems have been operating since the spring.
Anyone who visits from another state or returns to Pennsylvania from another state is required to have a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to entering the state. If they can’t or won’t get a test, they are required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in Pennsylvania, which is an upgrade from the recommendation put in place in early July that these actions be taken if traveling from or returning from states with a high number of virus cases. Still, Levine noted that it is mostly up to the individual to self-quarantine since the state can’t stop every person at the border to demand a test report and then watch each individual who should be under quarantine for 14 days.
Dr. Levine also announced a “strengthened” masking requirement – Pennsylvania already has a mask-wearing mandate – that now includes masking indoors when away from home and even masking in your own home if there are people present who are not members of your household. This mandate is recommended regardless of social distancing (being six feet apart). This is an order that is, again, only as good as the voluntary compliance of individuals.
Finally, Dr. Levine recommended that colleges and universities implement a testing plan for when students return to campus following the holidays.
“We must remain united in stopping COVID-19,” said Dr. Levine, who later, when asked about the possibility of more stringent mitigation efforts, said she can’t predict the future, but there are currently no plans to go back to the closures of the spring.
Source: Capitolwire.com, November 18, 2020
Wolf Administration COVID-19 Announcements
OMHSAS Updates: APAs to Continue, Licensing Process Updates
It’s Budget Week (Again). Here’s What You Need to Know.
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