This document summarizes 3-Day Stay and Benefit-Period Waivers during the COVID-19 public health emergency for the Medicare Part A skilled nursing facility prospective payment system.
This guide provides ideas and lessons learned to improve the well-being of the healthcare workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This document describes various State-based approaches to addressing social isolation in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar provides information about advance care planning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This document provides guidance to long-term care facilities for making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
This overview video webinar helps all long-term care staff prepare for and respond to COVID-19 by applying infection prevention and control guidance.
This flyer highlights key Psychological First Aid concepts and resources disaster responders and outreach workers may use when assisting individuals affected by the pandemic. It also provides resources for further assistance.
These mini-modules are designed to help healthcare workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic relieve stress.
This webpage contains information about the formula for calculating SARS-CoV-2 laboratory test percent positivity used by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This Caring for Caregivers Institute for Healthcare Improvement Virtual Learning Hour special series, presented in partnership with Well Being Trust, featured topics related to the prevention, prediction, and mitigation of poor caregiver mental health and well-being, and was guided by experts in the field.
In this video, Patricia Watson, PhD, of the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder discusses ways that healthcare workers can manage stress — theirs and others’ — as they face the ever-changing circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic.
These self-paced, scenario based modules are intended to provide administrative staff members with best practices for containing and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
This brief document describes steps to clean and disinfect a nursing home or other healthcare facility, what to do when someone is sick, and additional considerations for employers.
This document provides guidance to clinicians caring for COVID-19 patients during all phases of their disease (i.e. screening to discharge).
This webpage provides updated information from the CDC on a range of COVID-19 clinical care topics.
This infographic includes tips for clinicians to encourage taking care of themselves one small way each day.
This presentation discusses the importance of recognizing new or worsening infections quickly in long-term care facilities and nursing homes.
This document provides guidance on cohorting in order to reduce the exposure of residents without COVID-19.
This document provides ideas for communicating with family members of residents during COVID-19.
This resource provides guidance on compassionate care during COVID-19.
This document guides the interpretation of results when antigen tests are used in the following circumstances: testing of symptomatic residents and healthcare professionals, testing of asymptomatic residents and healthcare professionals in facilities as part of an COVID-19 outbreak response, and testing of asymptomatic healthcare professionals in facilities without a COVID-19 outbreak as required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recommendations.
This webpage provides information on how to properly wear a mask, and contains images showing how masks are a simple barrier to help prevent respiratory droplets from reaching others.
The Continuity of Essential Health Services Facility Assessment Tool can be used to rapidly assess the capacity of health facilities to maintain the provision of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This video helps families understand the struggles, challenges, grief, and trauma associated with COVID-19 and why it is important that everyone do their part to prevent the spread.
This document contains recommendations and specifications related to core components for effective infection prevention and control programs.