Politico: CMS Wasn’t Built for a Pandemic

Despite mandating infection-control measures in hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) haven’t been able to enforce them. As a result, hospitals have been able to lessen anti-COVID measures despite a growing surge in nosocomial cases. For example, over a third of nurses at some facilities are unvaccinated, but no firm actions have been taken.

According to Rachael Levy, “Jon Blum, the agency’s principal deputy administrator, said in an interview that CMS was “not as rigorous” in its inspections early in the pandemic because of concerns about Covid transmission but that the agency has improved since relaunching the program about a year ago.“

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(Source: Politico, May 30^th, 2022)