This document highlights ways nursing home staff can help residents and families balance the need for social involvement with necessary infection prevention strategies.
This document provides ideas for keeping in touch with loved ones living in long-term care facilities when you are unable to visit them in-person.
This toolkit provides a checklist on how to improve emotional wellness in 6 areas of life. The cards can be printed separately or together as a collective.
This document answers questions related to nursing home visitation during COVID-19, including but not limited to the steps nursing homes should take before reopening to visitors, visitation for compassionate care situations, outside visits, communal visits, and visits from the ombudsman.
This flyer offers tips for identifying and managing stress.
This flyer provides instructions on how to use V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
This document describes the difference between compassionate care visits and general visits and covers when compassionate care visits should be permitted during COVID-19.
This one-pager serves as a reference for patients when discussing priorities for medical care and treatment options.
In this document, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides answers to frequently asked questions about visitation guidance.
This flyer highlights strategies long-term care staff and leadership to consider when interacting with residents to support positive outcomes for both staff and residents.
This Spanish-language factsheet is intended to educate readers about the different types of COVID-19 tests and the steps involved.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This fact sheet provides information on the possible symptoms of COVID-19.
This template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This template newsletter article can be used to discuss your long-term care facility's experience with the COVID-19 vaccine.
The wallet card provides stress reduction tips and techniques as well as lists sources for additional assistance.
Families and visitors can use this interactive map to see nursing home visitation guidance by State.
This toolkit helps long-term care facilities navigate visitation guidance.