Biden will require nursing homes to mandate staff vaccinations or lose federal funds
Source: Washington Post
The Biden administration will require nursing homes to mandate that all of their workers be vaccinated against covid-19 as a condition for those facilities to receive federal funds, President Biden will announce Wednesday afternoon.
Biden is directing the Department of Health and Human Services to develop the new regulations for long-term care workers who serve people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid programs. The new regulations would apply to more than 15,000 nursing home facilities, which employ roughly 1.3 million workers, according to a person familiar with the announcement who requested anonymity to share details that were not yet public.
Earlier this month, The Post reported the administration was considering withholding federal funds from institutions to push more Americans to get vaccinated. The conversations at the time focused on how to get more health care workers vaccinated. The effort is part of a far more muscular approach by the Biden administration to increase vaccinations amid spiking cases due to the highly contagious delta variant.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/18/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/#link-WU52IB2YKVD2RAJWACC47XJKEU
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