On July 19, 2021, Governor Andy Beshear and Dr. Steven Stack, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, provided an update on the COVID-19 delta variant, a highly contagious strain that is spreading in the Commonwealth. Governor Beshear and Dr. Stack encouraged unvaccinated Kentuckians and Kentuckians in jobs that require ...
On July 16, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of $103 million in American Rescue Plan funding over a three-year period dedicated to programs meant to reduce burnout and promote mental health among the health workforce. These grants, which take into particular consideration the needs of rural ...
On March 23, 2021, Governor Andy Beshear signed House Bill 210 into law, making it mandatory for employers to provide employees who adopt children under the age of 10 up to six (6) weeks of personal leave. The bill further requires employers to provide the same type, amount, and duration of paid leave and other benefits to adoptive parents as is offered ...
On July 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it was providing $398 million in funding through the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) to 1,540 small rural hospitals for COVID-19 testing and mitigation.
State Offices of Rural Health, which work with small rural hospitals to implement quality ...
On July 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it was awarding nearly $144 million in American Rescue Plan funding to 102 HRSA Health Center Program look-alikes (LALs) to respond to and mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and enhance health care services and infrastructure in communities across the country ...
On July 13, 2021, a coalition of professional healthcare organizations, through the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, published a statement recommending that hospitals and other healthcare facilities implement mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for employees. The statement explained that requiring vaccination as a condition ...
On July 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy had issued a Surgeon General's Advisory warning the American public about the urgent threat of health misinformation. Health misinformation, including disinformation, has threatened the U.S. response to COVID-19.
Dating back to the Obama Administration, there has been discussion about the perceived need for non-compete reform at both the state and federal levels. A number of state legislatures have passed reform measures. Legislative reforms at the federal level, however, have not gained traction, and were all but guaranteed to fail during the Trump ...
Last month, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L, holding that a school violated a student’s First Amendment right when it suspended her from the cheerleading team for using explicit language outside of school. The lawsuit started nearly four years ago when the student, B.L., shared a ...
On July 1, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Labor, Department of Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management jointly issued "Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I", an interim final rule (IFC) that will restrict excessive out of pocket costs to consumers from surprise billing and ...