Long-term care facilities can track weekly vaccination data for residents and healthcare personnel (HCP) through NHSN. April 2024 Updates Person-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Forms – Instructions and Guidance Documents INSTRUCTIONS FOR REPORTING PERSON-LEVEL VACCINATION DATA Person-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Data – CSV Data Import VARIABLE DESCRIPTION AND FILE LAYOUT FOR RESIDENTS AND …
COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage, and Rates of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Among Residents in Nursing Homes — National Healthcare Safety Network, United States, October 2023–February 2024 Weekly / April 18, 2024 / 73(15);339–344 Summary What is already known about this topic? Nursing home residents are at increased risk for severe COVID-19. …
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 …
In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the National Institutes of Health assembled a panel of experts to provide practical recommendations for health care providers. For close to 4 years, the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) has critically reviewed the growing body of research data on COVID-19 and …
Issued on 02/26/2024 | Posted on 02/29/2024 | Report number: OEI-02-20-00492 Report Materials Full Report (PDF, 1.5 MB) Why OIG Did This Review Nursing home residents and staff have been especially impacted by the COVID‑19 pandemic. Now, it is critical to learn from what happened in nursing homes and take steps to better protect residents and staff during …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are hosting a joint webinar to share stories directly from nursing home teams that have developed successful strategies to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and fatigue, schedule onsite vaccination clinics, and address staff turnover …
Long-term care facilities can track weekly vaccination data for residents and healthcare personnel (HCP) through NHSN. January 2024 Updates Training Updates to Weekly COVID-19 Vaccination Data Reporting: Long-term Care Facilities – January 2024 Slideset [PDF – 1,015 KB] Data Collection Forms and Instructions COVID-19 Vaccination Data Collections Forms Note: All data …
01-09-2024 | OEI-06-22-00030 | Complete Report KEY TAKEAWAY The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) struggled to support nursing homes during mass enrollment into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) in 2020 and as COVID-19 reporting requirements changed throughout the pandemic. CDC has improved the nursing home reporting process and …
Weekly / December 22, 2023 / 72(51);1357–1364 Dallas J. Smith, PharmD1,2; Anastasia Lambrou, PhD1,2; Pragna Patel, MD3 Summary What is already known about this topic? Early recommended antiviral treatment prevents hospitalizations and deaths among patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who are at risk for severe disease. What is added by this report? …
Weekly / December 22, 2023 / 72(51);1371–1376 Summary What is already known about this topic? Nursing home residents are vulnerable to infection with and complications from SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Vaccination reduces severe illness and death from these vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases. What is added by this report? As …
