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Organization Type: National Institutions

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public information about health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. To continue fulfilling this mission, NLM is collecting and archiving related Web content, which also serves to document the histories of health and medicine. For questions about our web archiving program contact us at nlmwebcollecting@nlm.nih.gov.

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Title: Updated Guidance on HIPAA and Contacting Former COVID-19 Patients about Plasma Donation

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/guidance-on-hipaa-and-contacting-former-covid-19-patients-about-plasma-donation.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document details how a covered health care provider may use protected health information to identify patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to provide them with information about how they can donate their blood and plasma containing antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19, to help treat other patients with COVID-19.

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Title: Unaccompanied Children’s Program Field Guidance | The Administration for Children and Families

URL: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/policy-guidance/uc-program-field-guidance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Talking With Patients About Advance Directives During the COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/talking-with-patients-on-advance-directives--4.6.20.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Given all the ways that COVID-19 is affecting how medical care is provided, it is important to talk to everyone "in or out of hospital settingsâ" about advance directives. This two-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides information about advance directives and conversations about them.

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Title: Strategies to Optimize Provision of Mechanical Ventilation

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/optimizing-ventilator-use-during-covid19-pandemic.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document discusses a possible crisis standard of care strategy currently contemplated by several centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the ventilation of two patients with a single mechanical ventilator. This guidance provides technical documents developed by academic leaders assembled at FEMA, in order to provide an example of the type of circuits, setups, and anticipated problems that one might face if this strategy is employed - in a crisis care, life-or-death, situation.

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Title: Renewal of Determination That A Public Health Emergency Exists

URL: https://www.phe.gov/emergency/news/healthactions/phe/Pages/opioid-2april2020-aspx.aspx

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: A web page from the official Public Health Emergency's website on the coronavirus, a "Renewal of Determination That a Public Health Emergency Still Exists", announced and signed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex M. Azar II.

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Title: Mitigate Absenteeism by Protecting Healthcare Workers’ Psychological Health and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/strategy-to-mitigate-healthcare-workforce-absenteeism-final.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document provides guidance on how to prepare now and take actions, such as those listed, to help healthcare facilities protect their workers' psychological health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Managing Patient and Family Distress Associated with COVID-19: Tips for Healthcare Workers in Hospitals and Alternate Care Settings

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/managing-patient-and-family-distress-covid-final.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance on Covered Health Care Providers and Restrictions on Media Access to Protected Health Information about Individuals in Their Facilities

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/guidance-on-media-and-film-crews-access-to-phi.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page guidance explains that even during the current COVID-19 public health emergency, covered health care providers are still required to obtain a valid Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization from each patient whose protected health information will be accessible to the media before the media is given access to that protected health information.

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Title: Guidance for Licensed Pharmacists, COVID-19 Testing, and Immunity under the PREP Act

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/authorizing-licensed-pharmacists-to-order-and-administer-covid-19-tests.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This one-page guidance authorizes, under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), licensed pharmacists to order and administer COVID-19 tests, including serology tests, that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized.

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Title: Guidance for Licensed Pharmacists and Pharmacy Interns Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines and Immunity under the PREP Act

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/licensed-pharmacists-and-pharmacy-interns-regarding-covid-19-vaccines-immunity.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page guidance authorizes state-licensed pharmacists to order and administer, and state-licensed or registered pharmacy interns acting under the supervision of the qualified pharmacist to administer, to persons ages three or older COVID-19 vaccinations that have been authorized or licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Title: Elder Abuse Prevention | Guidance Portal

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/guidance/document/elder-abuse-prevention

Collection: Violence as a Public Health Issue web archive

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Title: Critical Care Load-Balancing Operational Template

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/critical-care-load-balancing-operational-template.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page template from the Healthcare Resilience Working Group provides a framework for indicators and triggers that may assist states that are implementing Medical Operations Coordination Cells (MOCCs). The goal of the MOCC toolkit is to assist regional, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to ensure load-balancing across healthcare facilities and systems so that the highest possible level of care can be provided to each patient during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Title: Crisis Standards of Care and Civil Rights Laws

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/crisis-standards-of-care-and-civil-rights-laws-covid-19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) is intended to provide information about crisis standards of care in a resource-constrained setting, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, to state, local, tribal, and territorial policymakers; healthcare systems leadership; and other decision-makers.

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Title: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Fatality Managment Tabletop Exercise Situation Manual

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/covid19-fatality-management-ttx-sitman-25march2020-508.docx

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response developed a COVID-19 fatality management tabletop exercise for use by government, private sector, and nonprofit organizations. The toolkit includes this 22-page Situational Manual and PowerPoint. The Situation Manual provides exercise participants with a hypothetical scenario that depicts numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths at the state, regional, and national levels over a period of 40 days. It also includes discussion questions regarding the following topics: coordination of fatality management operations; information collection and reporting; legal and regulatory considerations; supply chains and resource management; infection control; continuity of operations; mental and behavioral health services; and public messaging and risk communications. The accompanying slide deck can be customized and provides an overview of the scenario to set the stage for discussion.

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Title: Considerations for Assessing Regional Patient Load-Balancing Effects during COVID-19

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/considerations-for-assessing-regional-patient-load-balancing-effects-during-covid-9-1-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document from the Healthcare Resilience Working Group promotes constructs such as the Medical Operations Coordination Cell (MOCC) during the COVID-19 pandemic to create a regional approach, including policies to support these load-balancing operations, particularly through hospital-to-hospital patient transfers.

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Title: COVID-19 and HIPAA: Disclosures to Law Enforcement, Paramedics, Other First Responders and Public Health Authorities

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-hipaa-and-first-responders-508.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document provides guidance on how covered entities may disclose protected health information (PHI) about an individual who has been infected with or exposed to COVID-19 to law enforcement, paramedics, other first responders, and public health authorities in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.

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Title: COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQs For Hospitals, Hospital Laboratory, and Acute Care Facility Data Reporting

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance document details the federal government's COVID-19 data needs, explains the division of reporting responsibility between hospitals and states, and provides clear, flexible options for the timely delivery of daily data reports on COVID-19 testing, capacity, and utilization. The objective is to allow states and hospitals either to leverage existing data reporting capabilities or, where those capabilities are insufficient, to provide guidance in how to build upon existing capabilities.

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Title: Administration for Children and Families(ACF)/Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Children (UC): Emergency Operations

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/faqs-for-detail-opportunities-supporting-unaccompanied-children-federal-detailees.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hipaa-and-covid-19-limited-hipaa-waiver-bulletin-508.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In response to the nationwide emergency concerning COVID-19 (coronavirus), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has exercised the authority to waive sanctions and penalties against a covered hospital that does not comply with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule detailed in this five-page memorandum. The waiver became effective on March 15, 2020.

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