Mental Health Fallout of COVID-19: Caring for Yourself and Colleagues

7/13/2020

body { background:#fff; } By Sandra Jacobs, Vital Signs editor Whether working on the front lines or partially sidelined during the pandemic’s surge in Massachusetts, physicians are experiencing unprecedented em

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COVID-19 Highlights Racial Inequities

7/13/2020

body { background:#fff; } By Robyn Alie, Manager, Health Policy and Public Health By the first week of April, just weeks after states reported their first COVID-19 deaths, news outlets across the country were repo

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Meet Your New President: David A. Rosman

7/13/2020

body { background:#fff; } David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, was sworn in as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society on May 30. Dr. Rosman first joined the Society as a medical student in 1998 and has since served on the Governing Councils of the Medical Student and Resident

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2020 Annual Meeting: Taking Care of Business, Virtually

7/13/2020

body { background:#fff; } By Sandra Jacobs, Vital Signs Editor Officers of the MMS participate in a videoconference of the 2020 Annual Meeting on May 30. While the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Mass

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Letter to Massachusetts Congressional Delegation on Telehealth Policy

7/10/2020

practitioners who may furnish clinically appropriate telehealth services. Similarly, HHS and CMS should maintain … the authority to determine which practitioners may deliver and bill for different telehealth services … on May 8, CMS used its waiver authority to overcome this limitation by enabling hospital clinical staff …

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Letter to Congress Urging Federal Medicaid Match Increase and Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule Rescission

7/10/2020

program grew by nearly 8 percent between February and May and it is estimated this could blow a $1 billion …

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FMAP Letter to Congress

7/10/2020

program grew by nearly 8 percent between February and May and it is estimated this could blow a $1 …

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Summer 2020 Vital Signs

7/9/2020

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June 30 MMS Member Forum on Vulnerable Populations

7/2/2020

support services Understanding ourselves and our own biases and how racial inequities may be impacting … is one way of looking at it, that in the short period of time between February and the end of May, Blacks …, heart disease, asthma, other chronic lung disease. Another may be failure to follow public health …

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Long-Term Care Visitation Guidance Memo - June 1

7/2/2020

. Limitations on Long-Term Care Visitors: Long-term care facilities may allow visits with residents … Commissioner Tel: 617-624-6000 www.mass.gov/dph A long-term care facility may allow … COVID-19 may be visited.  Prior to transporting a resident to the designated outdoor visitation …

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