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.
These mini-modules are designed to help healthcare workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic relieve stress.
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 document provides guidance to clinicians caring for COVID-19 patients during all phases of their disease (i.e. screening to discharge).
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.
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 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.
This interactive website includes data reported by nursing homes to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network. It includes a total of COVID-19 confirmed cases, suspected cases, and deaths.
This document provides a list of COVID-19 testing vendors for long term care. The list contains the vendor's name, company details, testing process description, turnaround time, test and billing information, service area and contact information.
This toolkit provides a variety of educational resources and promotional materials related to COVID-19 vaccination.
This page outlines the data systems that have been integrated to ensure successful tracking and reporting of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration data. Each section includes an overview and information on trainings to support implementation.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
This document provides key information for employing several waivers of requirements that would normally be in place for providers to receive reimbursement under Medicare or Medicaid.
This tool can be used to assess and monitor the structural capacities of facilities to (i) allow safe COVID‑19 case management; (ii) continue to deliver essential services; and (iii) enable surge planning.
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 webpage provides answers to some commonly asked questions regarding COVID-19 vaccination.
This guide consolidates COVID-19 guidance for human resources for health managers and policy-makers at national, subnational and facility levels to design, manage and preserve the workforce necessary to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and maintain essential health services.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This article discusses psychologists’ research showing how to boost leaders’ communication in times of crisis.
This webinar training is intended to prepare healthcare workers to develop, manage and maintain a surge plan.
These stories from long term care facilities focus on key takeaways from implementing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infection prevention guidelines.
Schwartz Center Chief Medical Officer Beth Lown, MD, joins Patricia Watson, PhD, of the National Center for PTSD, and Richard Westphal, PhD, RN, of the UVA School of Nursing, for a conversation about what healthcare leaders can do to support their teams during the COVID-19 crisis.
This document contains electronic links to reliable sources of information regarding telehealth and telemedicine.