CMS Offers Training Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will finally offer guidance.  CMS announced an infection control training program is now available. The training program aims to stop the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes.  The program offers safety guidance to frontline facility workers and managers. Thousands of caregivers have died because of lack

Americans rely on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as a safety net. Trump plans on removing the safety net by eliminating the payroll tax. Payroll taxes are just that: taxes that come out of your paycheck. The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) payroll taxes and the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) taxes provide the money that

Facts and Statistics South Carolina’s number of confirmed cases exceeds 115,000 with almost 3,000 confirmed deaths. South Carolina is still averaging over 500 new cases with close to 50 deaths per day. The percentage of individual positive test results was 20.4%. NHC Healthcare Greenwood nursing home logged 12 more deaths this week. The facility has

Many people believe a work injury claim is the same as a personal injury claim, but in fact, when you or a family member are injured or killed at work, there are many different laws that apply to such injury that would not apply to a personal injury case that occurred outside of the workplace.  

Trump is trying to sell the nation’s stockpile of N95 masks. The federal government has supplied the marketplace with its strategic stockpile of N95 respirators.  Trump should have given them to nursing homes and other health care providers. Instead the distribution will be made through the open marketplace. Prices for key PPE items skyrocketed in

In a dramatic shift that perplexed experts and doctors, the CDC changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines.  Now people without symptoms need not be tested. Even if they’ve been in close contact with the virus. A senior health official told CNN the sudden change was the result of pressure from the Trump administration. The senior official said,