Post-acute provider adds pathogen-filtering system throughout facilities … Ankle exoskeletons may improve older adults’ walking speeds, researchers say … Rate of dementia increases as kidney function...
Support needed to improve health outcomes in nursing homes that serve Black residents, experts say
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Alicia Lasek
May 06, 2021
A new study in more than 11,000 nursing homes has shown that facilities with Black residents have higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death. The results suggest that the disparities are rooted in structures...
In breakthrough, feds OK nursing home visits, group dining and activities; update infection control guidance
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 28, 2021
After nearly a year in lockdown, nursing home residents can participate in indoor visitation, communal dining and group activities — with exceptions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced...
Unvaccinated residents had triple rate of COVID in Kentucky nursing home’s March outbreak: CDC
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 22, 2021
Vaccinated nursing home residents and staff members appeared to have a distinct advantage during a recent COVID-19 outbreak, agency investigators found.
Early vaccination sped up decline in COVID infections, study in Genesis facilities finds
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 20, 2021
Nursing homes that administered shots early in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout experienced a lower rate of new infections compared to later-vaccinating sites. The results underscore the efficacy of the drugs...
Long-term care remains in the dark about infection preventionist requirements
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 13, 2021
The need for infection preventionists has never been greater, but 13 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care providers still remain in the dark as to who will fit the federal government’s final...
An antibody cocktail that halts disease progression in sick COVD-19 patients has been shown to prevent the disease altogether in healthy people who live in close contact with an infected person, the drugmaker...
Untracked COVID: Nursing home workers have died at twice the rate of hospital workers
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 09, 2021
Nursing home care providers have the sad distinction of accounting for a large proportion of healthcare workers’ COVID deaths, according to new 2020 data that was not tracked by the U.S. government....
Clinical briefs for Friday, April 9
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 09, 2021
Focus shifts to short-stay residents to prevent future COVID-19 outbreaks … U.S. COVID vaccination rates to plateau in April, survey results suggest … U.S. hits COVID shot target; 25% of adults now...
Coronavirus rates drop 96% in nursing homes, but some see first-ever cases in new year
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2021
More than 430 nursing homes saw their first-ever COVID cases in early 2021, evidence that continued infection control measures are needed, and despite phenomenal declines in facility rates, says the U.S....