On January 14, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced updated compliance deadlines for the November 5, 2021 Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for covered health care staff. Baird Holm previously reported on the Supreme Court’s decision to lift the injunction against CMS’s vaccine […]
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Many commentators called this one correctly. Today, the Supreme Court lifted the injunction that had blocked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from enforcing the November 5, 2021 Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring health care entities subject to the rule to ensure their workforce (including contractors) were either […]
Baird Holm LLP is proud to announce that Hannah Fischer Frey, Mark J. Goldsmith, and Michael D. Sands have been promoted to Partners with the Firm. Read Full Press Release
On December 27, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced its intention to soon issue “a final standard that will protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 hazards” in line with its earlier Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (“Healthcare ETS”). Recall that on June 21, 2021, OSHA promulgated the Healthcare ETS […]
Baird Holm Partner Amy Erlbacher-Anderson was featured in the Marketplace Morning Report “Foreign-born nurses may be less likely to walk away from their jobs.” During her interview with Meghan McCarty Carino, Amy discusses the challenges workers are facing getting immigrant visas and the massive backlog for interviews on applications that […]