Coordinate locally to lower COVID-19 burden, facility study suggests
Three Michigan nursing homes worked hand-in-hand with local referral hospitals and labs to successfully contain facility COVID-19 outbreaks.
Hospitals
Providers object to reduced-testing policy for patients discharged to nursing homes
Nursing home providers in Rhode Island are pushing back against the state’s decision to ease COVID-19 testing requirements for patients discharged from hospitals and into long-term care facilities.
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, April 22
Airborne COVID-19 transmission via ventilation systems merits closer scrutiny, scientists argue … Acute kidney injury in COVID-19 is an emerging hospital resource problem … CMS to release first race, outcomes data related to COVID-19 in May … New report finds nearly half of US breathing unhealthy air; dementia again tied to air pollution
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, April 1
COVID-19 patients often infected with other respiratory viruses: early study … Providers trying to ‘MacGyver’ their way around COVID-19 … Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies warned not to stockpile meds
C. diff often originates outside healthcare settings, new study suggests
One in 10 patients admitted to a New York hospital with no C. diff symptoms were found to be carriers. Six months later, 38% had symptoms.
Keeping an eye on what the hospital is doing down the street
Maybe we should come up with a few new expression to signify what’s projected to be a doubling of Americans age 65-plus by 2060. The Aged Avalanche? Elderly Earthquake? Fragile Flood?
Experts: Hospitals should work directly with nursing homes to address infections
Hospitals have made much greater strides in cutting infection rates than their peers in the long-term care space and should work more closely with the latter to share know-how and better address the issues, experts said this week.
When no comment says a lot: A tale for nursing homes and hospitals
One should never forget that some of the most brutal fights occur between brothers or sisters.
Maybe you don’t want to be in that preferred network …
When it comes to contemplating joining caregiving networks, maybe you have more in common with the hospital than you think. Poor-performing hospitals tend to coexist in the same market as poor-performing skilled nursing facilities. Surprised?
A note from SNFs to hospitals: Stay away from Misfit Island
Hospitals need to toughen up. Their impending new five-star rating system isn’t going to be the end of the world (at least, not for most of them). But if the experience of skilled nursing homes is any indication, many will soon have legitimate reasons to be upset.
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