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 webpage provides updated information from the CDC on a range of COVID-19 clinical care topics.
This document provides guidance on cohorting in order to reduce the exposure of residents without COVID-19.
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 toolkit is a compilation of considerations for long-term care facilities based on lessons learned during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied by resources to inform planning and response efforts.
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.
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.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This webinar training is intended to prepare healthcare workers to develop, manage and maintain a surge plan.
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 module describes the role that environmental surfaces play in pathogen transmission and recommended practices for cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces.
This module discusses the importance of a water management program in the prevention of the transmission of waterborne pathogens.
This module discusses recommended practices for linen management. At the conclusion of the module, participants will understand how linens may transmit pathogens, and will be able to describe recommended practices for linen management.
This module discusses occupational health considerations for the infection prevention and control program. At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to describe occupational health considerations for the infection prevention and control program, including prevention and management of infectious occupational exposures and staff illness.
This course provides infection prevention and control training for individuals responsible for infection prevention and control programs in nursing homes so they can effectively implement their programs and ensure adherence to recommended practices by front-line staff.
This webpage provides additional information about Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 exposure standards and requirements, including requirements in states that operate their own OSHA-approved State plans; recordkeeping requirements and injury/illness recording criteria; and applications of standards related to sanitation and communication of risks related to hazardous chemicals that may be in common sanitizers and sterilizers.
This webpage provides nursing homes with general guidance on COVID-19 preparedness.
This guidance is intended to assist nursing homes and public health authorities with response and cohorting decisions in nursing homes.
This page provides an updated version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommended strategies for using ventilation to reduce exposures to COVID-19, and features ventilation improvement tools and FAQs.