Based on the negative outcomes of the coronavirus, long-term care facilities should not automatically send COVID-19-positive residents to the hospital for treatment, the chair of AMDA The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine told McKnight’s on Wednesday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hopes the expansion of its accelerated and advanced payment program will expedite cash flow to providers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Two Washington state skilled nursing facilities were the first in the state to receive hand-stitched face masks in a global campaign to provide millions of masks to providers amid critical shortages.
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Nursing homes in need of more direct-care workers have received a big boost from federal regulators.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought pleas from across the country for retired nurses, doctors and other clinicians to re-engage to help alleviate staffing shortages.
More providers across the country are now considering converting traditional nursing homes to created COVID-only recovery facilities.
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Providers are taking a stand against efforts that call on nursing homes to accept all discharged hospital patients regardless of their COVID-19 status as a means to increase bed capacity at hospitals.
