Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 May 2021
CMS expanding efforts to grow COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake amongst nation’s most vulnerable
11 May 2021 - CMS builds on whole of Government COVID-19 response with vaccination education, offering and reporting.
As part of the ongoing response to address the COVID-19 pandemic, and to improve health care access and reduce the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a rule that will ensure long-term care facilities, and residential facilities serving clients with intellectual disabilities, educate and offer the COVID-19 vaccine to residents, clients, and staff.
These requirements apply to long-term care facilities and Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, or ICFs-IID, and align with existing requirements for influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in long-term care facilities.
