Major nursing home association urges COVID emergency extension, revised guidance
By
John Hall
Aug 10, 2022
The nation’s largest nursing home group has requested the federal government extend the current public health emergency declaration as providers continue their fight against emerging COVID variants.
Extend PHE while updating COVID protocols, nursing home advocate urges feds
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 10, 2022
Safety and quality of life in LTC settings are not mutually exclusive, Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of AHCA/NCAL told federal health officials Tuesday.
Assisted living residents with dementia had higher all-cause mortality during pandemic
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 10, 2022
Assisted living residents with dementia were more likely to die from any cause in the early months of the pandemic than AL residents without dementia, a new study has found.
Domestic military response to COVID in New York state is largest in U.S. history
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 09, 2022
The ongoing domestic military response to COVID-19 in New York state, which included assistance to nursing facilities, is the largest in U.S history by length of mission, number of deployed military and...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Aug. 8
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 08, 2022
Cognitive rehab may relieve older adults of COVID-related brain fog … Some COVID patients remain contagious after day 5, researchers find … Paxlovid treatment may need to be extended to avoid rebound,...
New scale measures nurses’ pandemic moral distress
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Aug 05, 2022
Researchers from Penn Nursing have created a new scale that can help nurse leaders assess their colleagues’ well-being and identify areas for intervention.
Notoriously troubled NJ skilled nursing facility to close Monday
By
John Hall
Aug 04, 2022
Years of shocking news from a New Jersey nursing home that included residents’ bodies stored in on-site morgues, tax woes of a troubled owner and disturbing allegations of resident abuse have culminated...
Federal report outlines ‘long COVID’ clinical care guidance
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Aug 04, 2022
HHS has published a new report outlining federal resources available to healthcare workers who care for patients with lasting effects from COVID-19.
A new anti-bullying campaign?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Aug 02, 2022
You see them everywhere. Anti-bullying campaigns. People are bullied for just about anything. For looking different, for different beliefs, for sexual orientations, for race, creed, color, religion, etc. ...
‘Cracked’ and ‘broken’: Buffy Lloyd-Krejci on nursing home infection prevention
Aug 02, 2022
During the darkest days of the pandemic, Buffy Lloyd-Krejci, DrPH, CIC, traveled to nursing homes across the US to assess their infection control practices and help them adopt protective strategies. What...