Ann-Marie Alameddin, president and COO for the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, has written a letter to Arizona’s Department of Health Services wanting immediate action on waiving what she considers burdensome regulations on hospitals. Part of the letter reads, in order to focus on providing “optimal care to patients in this public health emergency, hospitals need flexibility with compliance to the usual government-mandated requirements that apply during conventional times.” The flexibility hospitals want includes waivers that would allow the transport of patients in private vehicles and would enable hospitals to send some emergency room patients to lower levels of care. Read more.