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OIG Begins Investigating Nursing Home COVID Vaccination Compliance

Published on Tue Mar 22, 2022

During the pandemic, long-term care facilities struggled to care for the nation’s most vulnerable patients. Sadly, the death toll was disproportionately high in nursing homes, and the feds are looking at the correlation between low COVID-19 vaccination rates and high death rates. Under the recently added Work Plan Active Item W-00-22-31560, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) will investigate [...]
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