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COVID-19 Resource Center: Health Care

Bricker’s health care attorneys can assist health care providers and health plans as they address pandemic-related issues so that they can remain focused on the health and safety of their patients, members and employees.
Health care providers, health plans and others monitoring COVID-19 should be aware of the legal concerns associated with responding to a public health emergency, particularly in circumstances when federal compliance regulations are temporarily modified.
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
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Helped clients understand their legal obligations under new labor and employment laws passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drafted work-from-home, leave, and reopening policies; advised on ...
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MoreHealth system COVID-19 response
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