COVID-19: CDC, FDA and CMS Guidance
This page includes AHA Today stories and other AHA content on coronavirus COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, FDA, and CMS.
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.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a document this week to help accelerate the development of prevention and treatment options for COVID-19.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to release waivers to provide health care organizations with flexibility to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Given the impracticality of continuously testing people diagnosed with COVID-19 to determine whether they remain infectious, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance this week on a symptom-based strategy for discontinuing isolation of persons with COVID-19.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced regulations requiring nursing homes to fully cooperate with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance of the spread of COVID-19 by reporting cases of COVID-19 directly to the CDC.