New York’s hospitals and nursing homes will be required to continue maintaining a 60-day emergency stockpile of personal protective equipment despite authorities declaring the COVID-19 emerge…
“These regulations are specifically meant to address the lessons learned in New York State from 2020 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to PPE,” the state Health Department said in its draft emergency rule.
“Notwithstanding the end of the State disaster emergencies relating to COVID-19, infections in nursing homes across the state persist and hospitals remain at the front lines of response,” the department says. Hospital staff putting on PPE at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Hospital during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 31, 2020.New York’s Health Department has extended an order for hospitals and nursing homes to keep 60-day emergency stockpiles of PPE.They added that the regulations were needed “on an emergency basis to ensure that hospitals and nursing homes Statewide do not again find themselves in need of PPE.
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