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QSO-20-30-NH (REVISED 03/10/2021)

Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United States (Sector regulator)

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Jurisdiction
United States
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
42 C.F.R. part 483; State and local reopening authority
Issued
2020-05-18 May 18, 2020
Effective
2020-05-18
End
2021-03-10 (expired) (read as 2021-03-10)
In force
May 18, 2020 to Mar. 10, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Gathering capHealth care orders
Addressees
  • State Officials
  • State Survey Agency Directors
Functions reached
  • VS
  • DN communal dining restored only in Phase 3
  • RS
  • IC baseline and weekly testing as reopening criteria
  • IN
Collection
Home Care, Nursing and Senior Living SEC-04

Operative words

Nursing homes should be among the last to reopen within the community... Phase 1... Visitation: prohibited except for compassionate care situations... Phase 2... Visitation: still generally prohibited... Phase 3... Visitation allowed with screening and additional precautions... Criteria for relaxing restrictions: no new nursing home onset of COVID-19 cases for 28 days... adequate staffing... access to adequate testing... baseline test of all residents [and] weekly testing of all staff.

Enforcement

Framework adopted by State orders; F563/F880

Notes

The national phase template that the State reopening orders in the regime table applied (AARP statuses of Sept. 11 and Dec. 16, 2020).

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