Below is Alston & Bird’s
Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news.
Week in Review Highlight of the Week:
This week, CMS released its FY 2022 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Rates Proposed Rule. Read more about the rule and other news below.
I. Regulations, Notices & Guidance
On April 26, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance entitled,
Nonclinical Testing of Individualized Antisense Oligonucleotide Drug Products for Severely Debilitating or Life-Threatening Diseases; Draft Guidance for Sponsor-Investigators. FDA is publishing this draft guidance to help sponsor-investigators with developing the nonclinical information that FDA recommends to support an investigational new drug application (IND) for certain individual
St Luke’s to explore the future of health education
Apr 27, 2021 10:56 AM PHT
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Saint Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-
William H. Quasha Memorial
As part of its newly launched “The Future of Health” conversation series, the Saint Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, through its new Planetary and Global Health Program, will be holding a 4th episode titled “The Future of Planetary Health Professions Education” on May 12, at 9 am (Manila time).
Health professions schools – such as medical, nursing, dental, and public health schools – have the mandate to educate students to ultimately take their place in the health workforce as excellent, compassionate, and ethical professionals.
Federal funding pushes Connecticut legislators to move the needle on drug policy and save lives
Recently we took care of a patient who had experienced over 10 opioid overdoses in the last two years. He had multiple infections related to injection drug use. He was in and out of jail where he did not have access to life-saving medication therapy for opioid use disorder. His story is not uncommon; in fact, a leading cause of death following incarceration is drug overdose. In Connecticut more than half of those who die by overdose have a history of incarceration.
Despite our state’s continued rise in overdose deaths and a clear harmful relationship between criminalization and overdose, Connecticut legislators have not learned the lesson of the failed War on Drugs. If anything, some legislators want to further entrench these failed policies as the current legislative session has seen several proposedbills that would further the criminalization of drug use and increase risk of overdose
Clinics aim to boost vaccination rates among people of color in R.I.
Organizers are reaching out to register BIPOC communities for vaccines in Providence and Woonsocket on April 10 and 11
By Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff,Updated April 3, 2021, 3:39 p.m.
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Pastor Howard M. Jenkins Jr. of the Bethel AME Church in Providence speaks during a March 25 news conference, calling for the state to hold a COVID-19 vaccination weekend for people of color in Rhode Island.Edward Fitzpatrick
PROVIDENCE â Organizers hope that as many as 6,000 people of color in Rhode Island will receive vaccines on the weekend of April 10-11 at locations in Providence and Woonsocket.
arrow A vaccine site worker verifies eligibility and registration to get COVID-19 vaccine at Citi Field in Queens, March 27th, 2021. Ron Adar/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
After Philadelphia saw a narrowing of racial inequities once a COVID-19 vaccine hub offered walk-up options, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that he’s open to trying the idea for New Yorkers.
When asked about walk-in vaccinations during his daily press briefing, the mayor said a pilot program is underway for some elders. New Yorkers older than 75 can now seek shots without an appointment at three city sites Brooklyn Army Terminal, Bathgate and Citi Field. Anyone escorting these senior citizens can get vaccinated as well, so long as they’re eligible for a dose.