Call 211 on your phone or search the 211 website to connect with supportive resources or learn about local emotional wellness options.
These mini-modules are designed to help healthcare workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic relieve stress.
This website provides resources, including COVID-19 public health emergency response information, for nursing home staff and leadership.
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.
The COVID-19 County Check Tool provides a snapshot of county levels of community transmission over the past 7 days. The tool also displays guidance on masking based on how the virus is spreading.
The University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences website offers resources to help you manage emotions and anxiety during the pandemic.
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 "QuickCast" explains why a comprehensive systems approach to supporting the emotional wellbeing of all members of an organization is so important.
This training is intended to prepare facilities to develop, manage, and maintain a surge plan.
This tool provides guidance for implementing a daily huddle.
This website provides ideas and activities for staying connected to loved ones and the community.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed toolkits to aid nursing home teams with improving staff competency and employee satisfaction. There are three toolkits in this series.
This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as COVID-19, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement infection prevention and control measures to ensure there is no further transmission to healthcare workers or to other patients in the health care facility.
This Pandemic Playbook covers hundreds of topics and issues that have affected nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This session for direct care staff offers tips to manage stress and cope with grief.
The COVID-19 Frontline Workers Screener from Mental Health America offers ideas to help if you are feeling overwhelmed. This site also offers free and anonymous online screenings to check for symptoms that may affect your emotional well-being.
The National Association of Health Care Assistants website features resources for CNAs to help them enhance quality of life and care for older adults and offers opportunities for CNAs to form strong relationships with other professionals within the long-term care system.
On this website, long-term care facilities can track weekly COVID-19 vaccination data for healthcare personnels and residents.
This course consists of five sections that teach health workers how they can protect themselves and others from the occupational risks they encounter throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This quick reference summarizes CDC’s strategies to optimize personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies in healthcare settings.
This webpage features studies, policy reports, and multimedia resources on today's long-term care topics.
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 resource can be used by individual staff or healthcare teams to learn coping and resilience-building skills.This resource can be used by individual staff or healthcare teams to learn coping and resilience-building skills.
Safe Call Now is a confidential 24-hour crisis line and support service for healthcare workers and their family members.
These documents provide guidance for surveyors of long-term care facilities.