Caring Outside the Box: New Surge Options for Hospitals
December 2, 2020 Sometimes you have to think outside the box. When it comes to addressing the large influx of COVID patients needing life-sustaining treatment, government and healthcare leaders have done just that. Early on in the pandemic of 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued multiple waivers that allowed hospitals new and unprecedented latitude in caring for these patients, including the concept of off-site services. A New…