Therapy Areas: Infectious Diseases
PruittHealth's chairman and CEO to serve COVID-19 commission for safety and quality in nursing homes
22 June 2020 -

Healthcare company PruittHealth said on Friday that its chairman and CEO Neil L. Pruitt Jr. has been elected to serve on a new, independent coronavirus commission for the comprehensive assessment of the nursing home response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 14 May 2020, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the formation of the Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes in the US. MITRE, an independent, not-for-profit organization, is standing up the commission and facilitating its activities and will independently author and deliver a report on the commission's findings and recommendations to CMS on 1 September.

The Coronavirus Commission will identify rapid and effective identification and mitigation of transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases nursing homes, recommend rigorous infection control practices and facility resiliency, improve care delivery and responsiveness to the needs of all nursing home residents during emergency, improve existing infection control policies as well as enable coordination across federal surveyors, contractors and state and local entities to mitigate coronavirus and future emergencies.

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