CMS Chief Advises Separate Non-COVID-19 Wards At Hospitals To Allow Device-Related Elective Surgeries To Resume

 
• By Sue Darcey

To get on with the business of providing non-coronavirus procedures – including elective surgeries involving replacement joints and other non-emergency care – at US health care facilities, Medicare agency chief Seema Verma is advising hospitals and outpatient facilities to establish non-COVID-19 care (NCC) zones.

Alert pandemic Covid-19. Triage hospital field tent for the first AID, a mobile medical unit for patient infected with Corona Virus. Doctors with protective masks check the patiences at the entrance.
CMS is advising that health care facilities segregate COVID-19 patients from those without the disease seeking elective surgeries

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