CMS NEWS: Trump Administration Launches New Healthcare Toolkit
Trump Administration Launches New Toolkit to Help States Navigate COVID-19 Pre-Hospital/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Resources
At President Trump’s direction, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR) released a new toolkit to help state and local healthcare decision-makers maximize workforce flexibilities when confronting 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in their communities. This toolkit includes a full suite of available resources to maximize responsiveness based on state and local needs, building on President Trump’s commitment to a COVID-19 response that is locally executed, state-managed, and federally supported. This work was developed by the Healthcare Resilience Task Force as part of the unified government’s response to COVID-19.
This Topic Collection focuses on plans, tools, templates, and other immediately implementable resources to help with COVID-19 preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts, focusing on pre-hospital and emergency medical services (EMS) settings, including public safety answering points (PSAPs).
Please refer to CDC’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 webpage for the most up-to-date clinical guidance on COVID19 outbreak management.
If you have COVID-19 promising practices, plans, tools, or templates to share with your peers, please visit the ASPR TRACIE Information Exchange COVID-19 Information Sharing Page (registration required) and place your resources under the relevant topic area. Resources specific to pre-hospital and EMS can be placed under the COVID-19 Pre-Hospital/EMS Resources Topic.
Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), COVID-19 coronavirus