This tool provides guidance for implementing a daily huddle.
This resource provides nursing home leadership with important factors to consider when developing and implementing a staff vaccination program.
Nursing home leaders can reference this resource to ensure that the facility’s emergency preparedness plan is current and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents during an emergency or disaster.
Nursing home leaders can reference this resource to ensure that the facility’s emergency preparedness plan is current and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents during an emergency or disaster.
Clinical leaders can use this tool to assess infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in nursing homes with an active outbreak of COVID-19.
This example inter-facility infection control patient transfer form can assist in fostering communication during transitions of care.
This Interim Final Rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes Long-Term Care (LTC) facility testing requirements for staff and residents. Specifically, facilities are required to test residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers, for COVID-19 based on parameters set forth by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. This memorandum provides guidance for facilities to meet the new requirements.
This guide is designed to help nursing home leaders build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among CNAs and overcome barriers to vaccination by applying insights from social, behavioral and cognitive science.
This one-page document provides a roll-up of expert key findings on the causality of COVID outbreaks in nursing homes.
This guide assists nursing home facility leadership with having effective one-on-one conversations with staff on vaccines and delivering a standardized curriculum to help raise staff awareness of accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines.
This document provides answers and visual guides to Frequently Asked Questions concerning the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 Point of Care (POC) Test Result Reporting Tool.
This document contains electronic links to reliable sources of information regarding telehealth and telemedicine.
This one-pager serves as a reference for patients when discussing priorities for medical care and treatment options.
The document includes a flow chart for COVID-19 Viral Testing, a Medicare payer hierarchy, Medicaid and the Uninsured payer hierarchy, private insurance, additional funding sources and Medicare coding and billing.
This webpage provides information on on reporting options, data collection forms, form instructions, archived and upcoming trainings on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) COVID-19 Module.
This presentation on National Healthcare Safety Network reporting describes commonly observed reporting errors in COVID-19 counts data; provides examples of best practices in reporting COVID-19 counts in the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module to improve data accuracy; and describes how to correct reporting errors in the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module.
This presentation provides an overview of the National Healthcare Safety Network's new COVID-19 module for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF); this module is part of the National Healthcare Safety Network's Long-term Care Facility Component.
This presentation provides guidance to long-term care facilities that are enrolling in the National Healthcare Safety Network on how to enter their targeted data elements to be used for COVID-19 emergency response activities.
This document presents information about the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (CDC/HICPAC) Guidelines for Isolation Precautions Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings.
This presentation provides information about the changing landscape in infection prevention in long-term care facilities, a description and interpretation of data for facility enrollment, participation, and hospital-acquired infection reporting.
This presentation helps long-term care staff to understand basic concepts within the National Healthcare Safety Network application and architecture; develop competency for updating facility level data within the application; and how to generate facility level reports within the National Healthcare Safety Network application.
This guide assists long-term care facilities in enrolling in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
This information is for nursing home staff use when receiving an admission or return from hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This updated infection control assessment and response tool is a longer but more comprehensive assessment of infection control practices within nursing homes. The facilitator guide format contains a side-by-side layout of both the question and answer choices as well as the recommended infection prevention and control practice(s) based upon current CDC guidance.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in effectively using PPE as an integral part of infection control and prevention measures.