OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)

Aspen Therapy is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all employees. Each Aspen Therapy clinic has developed a COVID-19 plan, which includes policies and procedures to minimize the risk of transmission of COVID-19, in accordance with OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard, (ETS). In addition to the COVID-19 written plan, Aspen Therapy has prepared a PowerPoint presentation, several educational handouts, and in-person education materials to ensure our management staff and facility therapy teams are trained in compliance with the OSHA ETS policy and procedure.

Here are some of the topics covered under this plan:

• Staff must always maintain 6 feet of social distancing
• Use of masks, eye protection, face shields, and exceptions
• Cleaning and disinfecting of equipment
• Health screening procedures and symptom reporting
• Required notifications of possible staff exposure to COVID-19
• Procedures for medical removal of vaccinated staff versus unvaccinated staff
• Time off for being COVID-19 positive 
• Return to work requirements
• Time off for vaccinations and symptoms post-vaccination
• This plan and all of our training materials are available on our website at www.aspentherapyservices.com and also available via contacting our Human Resource office at 440-423-0381

Emergency Regulation announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is developing an emergency regulation requiring staff vaccinations within the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing homes.

The new emergency regulations will require nursing homes to require mandatory vaccinations for all nursing home Healthcare staff members or face penalties to withhold both Medicare and Medicaid funding. Please be advised additional details are scarce at this time. CMS will move forward to advance this new emergency regulation through the rule-making process over the course of the next several weeks, and we expect to see the final regulation published in September. 

Aspen Therapy will share additional news as soon as details are released.