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 document provides guidance to long-term care facilities for making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
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 resource discusses ways nursing home staff can identify residents at high risk for deconditioning and work with them to prevent decline and improve functioning.
This resource discusses resident well-being and describes the mental impacts of social isolation and includes signs of depression and anxiety. It also discusses safe visitation strategies as a component of resident emotional well-being.
This resource focuses on emotional well-being of nursing home staff, including information about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, how to enhance well-being in nursing home culture, and compassionate communication techniques.
This resource addresses infection control and prevention in nursing homes, highlighting screening and monitoring, testing and responding, and quarantine and isolation. It also provides a sample decision tree for monitoring residents during daily encounters for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
This document highlights ways nursing home staff can help residents and families balance the need for social involvement with necessary infection prevention strategies.
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 infographic includes tips for clinicians to encourage taking care of themselves one small way each day.
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 infographic demonstrates how to safely put on (don) and take off (doff) COVID-19 personal protective equipment for contact and droplet precautions.
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 document contains recommendations and specifications related to core components for effective infection prevention and control programs.
This fact sheet summarizes best practices for national implementation to sustain personalprotective equipment while ensuring the protection of healthcare personnel and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
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 preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.