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Resources for Infant Formula Shortage
05/23/2022To address infant formula shortages in the wake of Abbott Nutrition’s voluntary recall of certain powdered infant formulas, the U.S. Food and Dr...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are investigating a confirmed case of monkeypox...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- All Healthcare Organizations
The National Standards Group (NSG), on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has created a new fact sheet about HIPAA...
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that laboratories perform a risk assessment before using a pneumatic tube sy...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals,
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
- Clinical Lab
FDA Updates
05/17/2022The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Cortrak*2 Enteral Access System by Avanos M...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has specific guidelines for outpatient mental health visits that are delivered via telehealth. &nb...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Behavioral Health - Outpatient,
- Medical Office,
- Community Mental Health Centers,
- Ambulatory Care,
- Rural Health Clinics
The Joint Commission (TJC) recently posted a request regarding COVID-19 precautions during surveys. TJC is requesting that healthcare staff interactin...
- The Joint Commission
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting healthcare professionals to the shortages of GE Healthcare’s iohexol and iodixanol, ...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new Health Update to provide clinicians and public health authorities with upda...
- FEMA,
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Urgent Care,
- Medical Office,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals,
- Ambulatory Care,
- Clinical Lab,
- Pharmacy,
- Rural Health Clinics
A collaboration from five medical organizations has recently published an update to recommendations for the prevention of central line-associated bloo...
- Miscellaneous
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals
FDA Updates
05/10/2022The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates and activities: FDA Takes Important Steps to Improve Supply of In...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the launch of the Maternal Mental Health Hotline, a new, confidential, toll-free hotlin...
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Urgent Care,
- Medical Office,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Home Health,
- Hospitals,
- Community Mental Health Centers,
- Ambulatory Care,
- Rural Health Clinics
As a part of the updated Joint Commission (TJC) standards for Long Term Care the agency has made some additions to the education topics that organizat...
- The Joint Commission
- Long Term Care
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has limited the authorized use of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to individuals 18 years of age and o...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
Within the updated Joint Commission (TJC) standards for Long Term Care are requirements specific to staff education on dementia. HR.01.05.03, element ...
- The Joint Commission
- Long Term Care