Bricker health care attorneys provide counsel on:

Health information management

• Release of COVID-19 diagnosis to state/other agencies and to persons with whom a patient may have come in to contact
• Media requests/media onsite

Patient care

• Isolation and quarantine regulations
• Change in visitor rules for all patients
• Potential violations of COPs due to inadequate staffing
• Reporting of infected patients departing a facility against medical advice
• EMTALA obligations if an emergency department is overrun
• Transfer of infected patients between unrelated facilities
• Shortage of supplies and medications, possible transfer from unrelated facilities
• Policies/protocols for personal protective equipment

Workforce policies

• Sick employees calling off and creating a staffing shortage
• Sick employees not calling off and increasing the threat of infection to others within the hospital
• Employees calling off due to short supply of protective equipment
• Use of temporary privileges
• Necessary/temporary policy changes and enforcement
• Mandatory vaccinations for employees
• OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard