DAL NH 23-03: Update to Emergency Preparedness Plans

Recently enacted amendments to Public Health Law Section 2803(12) require that residential health care facilities include as part of their mandated pandemic emergency plans measures to update residents, authorized family members, and resident representatives of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for placement or grouping of residents within a facility to reduce transmission of the pandemic disease, consistent with guidance issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). See full DAL attached.

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Jackie Pappalardi, RN, BSN
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