Policy and Legislation

The task force’s primary goal is to protect and bolster sexual and reproductive health, including the right to safe and legal abortion care.

Christine Moundas, a Ropes and Gray partner, gives her view the regulatory framework for the year.

Hospital leaders on Tuesday will discuss the ongoing toll of COVID-19 on hospitals as the pandemic enters its third year.

<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This week's top stories include an alert from federal agencies about </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Russian state-sponsored cyber operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, including healthcare organizations, and Massachusetts emergency orders released in response to critical staffing shortages in healthcare. </span></span></p>

Forty-five organizations are getting the American Rescue Plan funds over three years.

Hospitalizations, drug and device shortages, and employee illness and burnout may continue through 2022, AHA says.

A critical staffing shortage has contributed to the loss of about 700 medical/surgical and ICU hospital beds since the beginning of 2021.

This applies in the 24 states where the vaccine mandate was reinstated by last week's Supreme Court's decision.

<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This week's top stories include a class action complaint filed following a data breach that affected nearly 320,000 people, and New York's booster requirement that aims to protect the health of a stretched-thin workforce.</span></span></span></p>

This adds to the more than 800 federal emergency personnel dispatched to 24 states, tribes and territories since Thanksgiving.