Articles Tagged With: Congress
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National Patient Safety Board Could Be Implemented
A bill in Congress could create a patient safety board modeled after the successful safety efforts in transportation. The bill would create a National Patient Safety Board that would do for the healthcare industry what the National Transportation Safety Board and Commercial Aviation Safety Team have done to improve safety for those fields for more than 25 years.
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Congress Issues Special Report on COVID-19 Pandemic
A select subcommittee exhaustively detailed what went wrong and offered suggestions on how to prevent future disasters.
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OSHA Violence Prevention Draft Reg Gathers Momentum
Making slow but steady progress on an intractable problem, OSHA is expected to issue a violence prevention draft standard for healthcare in 2023. The need for regulation is compelling, particularly since violence in healthcare is notoriously underreported.
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Federal Healthcare Violence Law in Congress: If Not Now, When?
The longstanding problem of patients and visitors attacking and verbally abusing healthcare workers has been worsened by the chaos and cultural divisiveness of the COVID-19 pandemic. If federal lawmakers cannot find a way to better protect healthcare workers now, will they ever? -
Federal Title X Funding Decimated for Many Providers
A shockwave rocked Title X programs on March 30, when the federal government’s latest round of funding left many facilities with huge budget shortfalls. The Biden administration had reversed the gag rule and asked Congress for more Title X funds. Yet, when Title X funding was announced, many programs received the worst cut in their history with the program. -
Lawmakers Approve Workplace Violence Prevention Measure
Legislation would require extra measures to maintain safe healthcare environments.
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Coalition Calls for More Federal Investment in Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention
Groups ask Congress for additional money for research, innovation, surveillance, and stewardship.
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Lawmakers Broker Agreement to End Surprise Billing
Bipartisan compromise was included in latest COVID-19 relief package.
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Report Calls on Congress to Take Lead on Surprise Billing
States have led the way on issue, but HHS posits the need for uniform federal solution.
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Congress Considers Legislation Addressing Healthcare Provider Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed historic burdens on already-taxed frontline clinicians.