This podcast is the first in a series of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-sponsored podcasts for frontline nursing home staff, and discusses training and infection control practices in nursing homes to help combat the spread of COVID-19.
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams minimize infection risk in their facility.
This 30-minute course reviews best practices for effective COVID-19 vaccine administration and addresses recent COVID-19 recommendations presented by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The short video features Dr. Abby Carlson, who brings her background as a member of a hospital infection control team and a doctor caring for patients to this video series designed for frontline workers.
To help prevent healthcare professional burnout, this website provides evidence-based recommendations.
This video provides guidance on how nursing homes can enter point of care (POC) SARS-CoV-2 laboratory test data into the National Healthcare Safety Net application.
This tool is intended for health care facilities that have either cared for or admitted COVID-19 patients. It can help determine the risk of COVID-19 virus infection of all health care workers who have been exposed to a COVID-19 patient and then provides recommendations for appropriate management of these health care workers, according to their infection risk.
This tool explores the future need for and delivery of aging services in the context of expectable, challenging and visionary futures.
Esta serie de tres módulos de aprendizaje presenta estrategias para ayudar a los equipos de hogares de ancianos a reconocer y manejar el estrés, trabajar juntos para resolver desafíos comunes y practicar la comunicación abierta. Los módulos tienen una duración aproximada de 5 minutos.
This flyer reinforces the importance of following safety guidelines to stop the spread of COVID-19.
In this video, Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, the author of “Nonviolent Communication - A Language for Life,” explains how to listen empathically.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This learning module will help you recognize when a resident may need support to resume normal activities.
This template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.
This template newsletter article can be used to discuss your long-term care facility's experience with the COVID-19 vaccine.
This webinar provides information and resources that will address issues of COVID-related grief, trauma, and resilience in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) staff and leadership.
During this webinar, presenters discuss the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) role in issuing Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for certain monoclonal antibodies, options for compassionate use, the process for ordering and distributing monoclonal antibodies, and current data on using monoclonal antibodies for both non-hospitalized and immunocompromised patients. Presenters also cover preventing, diagnosing, and treating COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients, including the role of monoclonal antibodies, serologic testing, and potential third dose of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Families and visitors can use this interactive map to see nursing home visitation guidance by State.
This video features a physician describing their health system's approach to treating patients with ongoing symptoms post-COVID and the development of a COVID Recovery Center.
Video of Associate Professor of Philosophy Bert Baumgaertner discussing his research about vaccination decision-making, strategies for resolving disagreements, and how to apply his findings to vaccine conversations.
This video demonstrates what personal protective equipment should be used in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, and when and how to use it correctly to help protect staff and residents from COVID-19.
This series of two learning modules focuses on considerations for when to test residents for COVID-19 and how the COVID-19 vaccine can protect nursing home staff and residents. The modules are about 5 minutes long.
This toolkit helps long-term care facilities navigate visitation guidance.