COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is encouraging health care facilities to reopen for elective procedures and encouraging patients to seek needed care.
Although Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health in Lebanon, N.H., saw relatively few COVID-19 patients this winter, the disease is driving change as the system resumes services put on hold during the first wave of the pandemic.
The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) sent a letter to Congress this month to thank leaders for including top NCC priorities in the CARES Act and to urge members to protect and support nurses battling COVID-19 in future legislation.