Bruce Japsen Senior Contributor Apr 20, 2020,10:11am
EDT
U.S. nursing homes will be required to report
cases of the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 directly to patients as well as their
families, the U.S. government announced Monday.
Calling the move “unprecedented transparency,”
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma Monday
said nursing home residents and their families “have a right to know what is
going on in these facilities.” The information will also be reported to the
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, which will be developing a tool
that will allow the public to access such information, Verma said.
The new requirement, which Verma expects
nursing homes to follow immediately follows reports of rising deaths and
related illness from COVID-19 and related reports that families are not being
made aware of virus outbreaks.
“We expect that nursing homes will start to
report by the end of this week,” Verma told healthcare reporters on a
conference call Monday morning. “We are hoping to get this information out as
soon as possible.”
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