March 2025 Updates Person-Level – Data Collection Forms and Instructions LTCF Resident Optional Person Level Reporting for Long Term Care Residents (Form 57.216) [PDF – 264 KB] – February 2025 LTCF Healthcare Personnel Optional Person Level Reporting for Healthcare Personnel (Form 57.217) [PDF – 270 KB]– February 2025 Note: All data collection …
At its October 2024 meeting, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices* (ACIP) approved the Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Ages 19 Years or Older, United States, 2025. The schedule supports health care providers, as well as public health and other professionals, by providing a consolidated summary of current ACIP recommendations …
Quick Reference Guide: Re-Submitting COVID-19 Vaccination Data using the Person-Level Vaccination Forms Introduction This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) will provide information on using the Re-submit all changed weeks button for your facility’s person-level COVID-19 vaccination data (Residents/Healthcare Personnel [HCP]) if the summary counts for Residents/HCP have changed since you previously …
Vaccination Updates for the Respiratory Virus Season Reporting Annual Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination Data This is a friendly reminder that reporting annual influenza vaccination data among healthcare personnel (HCP) is required for CMS-certified free-standing acute care facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), critical access hospitals, long-term acute care facilities, prospective payment …
Use of Additional Doses of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccine for Adults Aged ≥65 Years and Persons Aged ≥6 Months with Moderate or Severe Immunocompromise: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2024 Weekly / December 12, 2024 / 73(49);1118–1123 Summary What is already known about this topic? The …
Weekly / November 21, 2024 / 73(46);1052–1057 Summary What is already known about this topic? Nursing home residents are at increased risk for severe COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) illness. Vaccination reduces risk for severe outcomes from these vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases. What is added by this report? As of …
Long-term care facilities can track weekly vaccination data for residents and healthcare personnel (HCP) through NHSN. August 2024 Updates Resources Influenza/RSV July 2024 Updates Timestamps in NHSN Beginning August 8, 2024, timestamps in the NHSN application (such as “date created” and “date last modified” fields) will display in Coordinated Universal …
Engineering controls can be implemented to isolate people from a hazard and provide protection for long-term care residents and staff. Engineering Controls for Long-Term Care
The NHSN Long-term Care Facility Component supports the nation’s COVID-19 response through the LTCF COVID-19 Module. Facilities eligible to report data to NHSN’s COVID-19 Module include nursing homes/skilled nursing, long-term care for the developmentally disabled, and assisted living. In response to H.R. 7105 – Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020, …
Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes to Prevent Spread of Multidrug-resistant Organisms (MDROs) Memo #QSO-24-08-NH Posting Date 2024-03-20 Fiscal Year 2024 Memorandum Summary • CMS is issuing new guidance for State Survey Agencies and long term care (LTC) facilities on the use of enhanced barrier precautions (EBP) to align with nationally accepted …
