The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 C.F.R. 482.42 (infection control CoP); survey guidance
- Issued
- 2020-03-04 Mar. 4, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-04
- End
- Expiration date stated May 1, 2023 (read as 2023-05-01)
- In force
- Mar. 4, 2020 to May 1, 2023
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, CAHs; State survey agencies
- Functions reached
- VS visitor limits
- SX rescheduling
- OC
- ED triage
- IC screening
- Collection
- Hospitals and Health Systems SEC-01
Operative words
Reschedule non-urgent outpatient visits as necessary. Reschedule elective surgeries, procedures, and other visits as necessary. Shift elective urgent inpatient diagnostic and surgical procedures to outpatient settings... Limit visitors to COVID-19 positive patients and persons under investigation (PUI).
Enforcement
Survey guidance under the infection-control CoP; deficiencies cited under 42 C.F.R. 488
Notes
Guidance, not an order; pleaded as the federal standard the State orders adopted and as the survey standard enforced under the infection-control CoP.
Retrieval noteSaved copy bears a later revision date (Aug. 4, 2025 header) with the revision history; quote the revision in force for the quarter with care. The saved file is the EXPIRED posting dated August 4, 2025 ('EXPIRED EFFECTIVE: May 1, 2023'; 'ORIGINAL POSTING DATE March 30, 2020'; 'Refer to QSO-25-23-ALL released on July 30, 2025'); revision chain: original Mar. 4, 2020, revised Mar. 30, 2020 and later.