require hospitals to monitor + prevent covid infections

[redbird]

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it: Make a public comment urging the Medicare/Medi-cal system to require hospitals to monitor and prevent #COVID infections.

Looking at the title of the proposed rule, it seems to be several different things, linked by semicolons. I think the covid monitoring fits under "Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Requirements for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals."

I edited and shortened the sample letter (the second link), including adding a bit about immune-compromised patients, and removing all the referencesa.

Link to make a comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/01/2023-07389/medicare-program-proposed-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals

Link to a sample letter you can copy and edit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1273-_VIbfaUPvlRo0MXBXEq7gJozNQn6udHhA8HniCs/

Link to a formatted pdf you can attach as a comment instead:
https://substack.com/redirect/d8ee9a6b

[The first line of this post, and the links, are copied from a Mastodon toot.]