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  1. Ex. NJ-068 Order May 19, 2020

    Department of Health memorandum, Guidance for Ambulatory Surgery Centers to Resume Elective Surgery and Invasive Procedures

    Conditions for ambulatory surgery centers to resume elective surgery on May 26, 2020 · Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health · New Jersey

    "Ambulatory surgery centers resuming elective surgeries and invasive procedures are required to take these additional steps to protect the healthcare workforce and patients being served: 1. Comply with State and CDC guidelines to protect against further …

    Health care ordersWorkplace rules2020 Q2
  2. Ex. FED-158 Order Apr. 7, 2020

    CMS, Non-Emergent, Elective Medical Services, and Treatment Recommendations (Apr. 7, 2020) (tiered framework; supplements the Adult Elective Surgery and Procedures Recommendations of Mar. 18, 2020)

    Non-Emergent, Elective Medical Services, and Treatment Recommendations · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS · United States (all healthcare facilities and clinicians)

    … to limit those medical services that could be deferred, such as non-emergent, elective treatment, and preventive medical services for patients of all ages. A tiered framework is recommended to prioritize services and care to those who require emergent or …

    Business closureHealth care orders2020 Q2
  3. Ex. DC-037 Order May 26, 2020

    DC Health, Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Guidance for Elective Surgery (Phase 1; last updated May 26, 2020)

    Guidance for Elective Surgery · DC Health · District of Columbia

    … to adopt new behaviors and rigorous safeguards... providers that will resume elective procedures and non-emergency services during Phase 1 [must] Prioritize elective medical and surgical care that is essential, based on the urgency... Visitors should …

    Health care ordersWorkplace rules2020 Q2
  4. Ex. SEC-01-116 Order Mar. 17, 2020

    DC Health recommendation (Mar. 17, 2020) that all elective medical procedures, non-urgent hospital and outpatient visits and non-urgent dental procedures be postponed; DC Health guidance for resuming elective surgery (May 26, 2020)

    DC Health guidance on elective procedures · DC Health (Department of Health) · District of Columbia

    The District of Columbia Department of Health (DC Health) is recommending that ALL elective medical procedures, non-urgent hospital and outpatient visits, and non-urgent dental procedures be postponed to preserve health care capacity (ACS tracker quotation).

    Health care orders2020 Q2
  5. Ex. DC-038 Order Sept. 29, 2020

    DC Health, COVID-19: Guidance for Elective Surgery (Phase Two; last updated September 29, 2020)

    Guidance for Elective Surgery · DC Health · District of Columbia

    … [facilities operating above] conventional capacity must not resume normal elective surgery volumes.... All patients and visitors must be assessed for symptoms of COVID-19 upon arrival... There must be a written policy in place to ensure that visitors to the …

    Capacity limitFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rules2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
  6. Ex. NJ-067 Order May 19, 2020

    Department of Health memorandum, Guidance for Hospitals to Resume Elective Surgery and Invasive Procedures

    Conditions for hospitals to resume elective surgery on May 26, 2020 (screening, PPE, testing, capacity, visitors, reporting) · Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health · New Jersey

    "Hospitals resuming elective surgeries and invasive procedures are required to take these additional steps to protect the healthcare workforce and patients being served: 1. Comply with all relevant State and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …

    Health care ordersWorkplace rules2020 Q2
  7. Ex. DC-069 Order June 17, 2020

    DC Health, Phase Two Guidance for Elective Surgery (updated June 16-17, 2020)

    Phase Two Guidance for Elective Surgery · DC Health · District of Columbia

    Health care ordersWorkplace rules2020 Q22020 Q3
  8. Ex. MA-058 Order Mar. 15, 2020

    Order of the Commissioner of Public Health regarding non-essential elective invasive procedures (hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers)

    Order postponing non-essential elective invasive procedures · Commissioner of Public Health · Massachusetts

    Listed on the mass.gov index ('DPH Order... dph-elective-surgery-order' with hospital and ASC guidance); the May 18, 2020 order (read) presupposes the postponement by permitting only attesting providers to resume 'high-priority preventative care and urgent …

    Health care orders2020 Q2
  9. Ex. SEC-01-125 Order Mar. 20, 2020

    NCDHHS Secretary's letter to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (Mar. 20, 2020) requesting suspension of elective and non-urgent procedures effective Mar. 23, 2020

    NCDHHS request to suspend elective and non-urgent procedures and surgeries · Secretary of Health and Human Services Mandy Cohen (NCDHHS) · North Carolina

    … 23, 2020, as part of a unified response, I request all hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers suspend all elective and non-urgent procedures and surgeries. Elective and non-urgent procedures and surgeries are defined as any procedure or surgery that if not …

    Health care orders2020 Q2
  10. Ex. SEC-01-140 Order Mar. 19, 2020

    Orders of Mar. 19, 2020 closing businesses that are not life-sustaining, with the Industry Operation Guidance list ('Home Health Care Services - Yes - Elective procedures prohibited'; hospitals - Yes - elective procedures prohibited); DOH Guidance on Ambulatory Surgical Facilities' Responses to COVID-19 (Mar. 20, 2020)

    Pennsylvania life-sustaining business orders and list (elective procedures prohibited); DOH ASF guidance · Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health · Pennsylvania

    Ambulatory surgical facilities may not perform any elective surgeries or procedures unless the surgery or procedure would preserve organ function or avoid further harms from an underlying condition or disease (ACS quotation of the Mar. 20, 2020 DOH guidance); …

    Business closureHealth care orders2020 Q2

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  1. Industry analysis

    Hospitals and Health Systems

    • The fifty States New Jersey suspended every adult elective surgery and invasive procedure from 5:00 p.m. on March 27 to 5:00 a.m. on May 26, 2020, resumed under Department of Health directives that governed capacity, protective equipment, staffing, cohorting, testing, visitors and reporting through January 11, 2022, and required …
    • The fifty States Vermont postponed all non-essential adult elective surgery from March 20, 2020, authorized the resumption of clinic visits, diagnostic imaging and outpatient procedures under Health Department mitigation requirements from May 4, 2020, and carried the Commissioner's mitigation requirements in section 4 of the amended …
    • The fifty States Arizona delayed every elective surgery using protective equipment from March 21, 2020, ordered every hospital to increase capacity, and permitted resumption from May 1, 2020 only on exemption for facilities at no more than eighty percent occupancy with fourteen days of protective equipment and testing of every …

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  2. Industry analysis

    Physician Practices and Outpatient Care

    • The fifty States and the District of Columbia … the emergency; Addendum 3 to Executive Order 01-20 of March 20, 2020 postponed all non-essential adult elective surgery and medical and surgical procedures; the amendment of May 4, 2020 permitted phased resumption; Executive Order 06-21 of June 15, 2021 continued the emergency; and Emergency Rule H-2021-01-E of July …
    • The fifty States and the District of Columbia … and imposed the stay-at-home order; Mayor's Order 2020-067 of May 27, 2020 conditioned Phase One elective care, from May 29, 2020, on DC Health's requirements for elective surgery and dental care; Mayor's Order 2021-096 of July 24, 2021 continued the public emergency; Mayor's Order 2021-097 of July 29, 2021 reinstated …
    • The third quarter of 2021 … operative clauses: Executive Directives 20-016 and 20-018, as revised June 16, 2021, conditioned every elective surgery and invasive procedure in every hospital and ambulatory surgery center on screening, testing, PPE and capacity requirements and were continued after June 4, 2021 to January 11, 2022; Executive Order …

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  3. Industry analysis

    Dental Practices

    • The fifty States Vermont ordered "all clinicians in Vermont to expedite postponement of all non-essential adult elective surgery and medical and surgical procedures, including all dental procedures," from March 20, 2020, and reopened dentistry in phases from May 22, 2020 under Health Department interim guidance.
    • The second quarter of 2020 Vermont had ordered the postponement of "all non-essential adult elective surgery and medical and surgical procedures, including all dental procedures."
    • Notes … 2 (June 22, 2020) (Ex. DC-068); Guidance for Dental Settings (July 29, 2020) (Ex. DC-040); Guidance for Elective Surgery (Phase 1 and Phase 2) (Ex. DC-037; Ex. DC-038); Mayor's Order 2020-053 (Mar. 24, 2020; closures effective 10:00 p.m.

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  4. Industry analysis

    Veterinary and Animal Services

    • The revenue lines The revenue lines are professional services (examinations, vaccinations, diagnostics, dentistry, surgery), the largest line and the one the elective-procedure orders suspended; emergency and critical care; pharmacy and retail (the line that shifted online); boarding and daycare (the line tied to travel and workplace …
    • SC: PPE and pharmaceutical supply … and reused (the AVMA found more than a quarter of practices sanitizing and reusing PPE in April 2020); elective surgery conditioned on the supply; and, in July 2021, the lawful basis for imported and decontaminated respirators withdrawn.
    • The required modifications had only a nominal effect (Q&A-18) The modifications described here are the postponement of elective surgery, the closure of the waiting room, the conversion of the examination to telemedicine, the inventory and surrender of PPE, the closure of the grooming room and its reopening by appointment and curbside, the twenty-five and ten percent occupancy …

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  5. The Fourteen Grounds

    Ground 2. "Essential business and remained open"

    • A hospital forbidden to perform elective surgery was essential and open.
  6. Analysis

    A Nation Under Orders

    • The largest metropolitan areas … and gyms, ordered every open business to telecommute wherever possible and directed the postponement of elective surgery; San Bernardino County's order of April 7, 2020 did the same; and both counties' isolation, quarantine, court and licensed-facility orders ran through the third quarter of 2021.
  7. Industry analysis

    Home Care, Nursing and Senior Living

    • The twelve functions Orders that suspended elective surgery, that barred discharge to a nursing home without a negative test, that barred a facility from admitting during an outbreak or without a State health department review, and that barred hospice staff from entering a facility fixed the industry's intake.
  8. Analysis

    Partial Suspension: the Test and the Method

    • Notes Each industry adds its own: DR (dining room), BA (bar), TO (takeout) and BQ (banquets) for restaurants; SF (sales floor) and CU (curbside) for retail; SX (surgery and elective procedures) and ED (emergency department) for hospitals. ↩

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