As COVID-19 has moved to an endemic phase (constant presence, not spreading out of control or taxing health care resources), I’ve started to look back at what transpired since early-2020 and what was learned, known, and now, embedded (perhaps) in our culture and our health care industry. Suffice to say, the review is somewhat mind boggling.
My work and my firm, H2 Healthcare, were heavily engaged in the pandemic, on a number of different levels. Today, we still do a lot of COVID related compliance work, mostly in litigation matters. Tomorrow, I’ll cover the expanding implications of government policy during COVID and how the same is transferring now, to litigation, especially in SNFs and ALFs.
To the title of this post. It is a topic I addressed in a podcast just as the Biden Administration began and released its plan titled, “National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness”. I’ve attached a link to the podcast here: https://muckrack.com/podcast/postacuteadvisor/episodes/covid-19-response-and-pandemic-preparedness/ Warning: the sound is not the greatest, unfortunately.
The podcast is today’s post but, it is also part of my reflection on where we are via our collective journey through the pandemic. More on the COVID impact to health care and health policy, plus related issues like litigation and compliance, in future posts.
For reference, in case readers are interested, the Biden Administration COVID-19 Response plan is available for review here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/