ANA survey: Nearly 60% of nurses support mandatory vaccination … Deborah Birx: Long-term care must prepare for, protect against, prevent COVID … Nursing homes must make ‘every reasonable effort’...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Aug. 10
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 10, 2021
BioNTech: Third dose — not new drug — is the best path for boosting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy … Connecticut: Long-term care workers must vaccinate or face fines … Older adults with poor hearing...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Aug. 9
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 09, 2021
Feds weigh withholding Medicare funding for LTCFs that don’t mandate vaccines … Physicians report 20% increase in burnout, new survey finds … Treatment of tenacious stomach bug that troubles elderly...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 4
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 04, 2021
Genesis HealthCare requires shots for all: Employees, care partners, onsite vendors must be vaccinated … More than half of U.S. outpatient antibiotics prescriptions not tied to visit or infection …...
‘Game-changing’: Senior living giant Good Sam mandates employee COVID-19 vaccination
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2021
In an email to employees on Thursday, Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Good Sam parent company Sanford Health, said that requiring Good Sam and other Sanford employees to get a “game-changing vaccine”...
American Hospital Association ‘strongly’ urges mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 23, 2021
Vaccination protects personnel at work and in the community, and reduces the risk of unintentionally bringing the disease to work and transmitting it to patients and peers, AHA said.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 22
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
JEA Senior Living to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees in its 40 communities … CDC: U.S. life expectancy declines to its lowest level in nearly 20 years … High-risk VA population responds well...
Infection control experts throw support behind healthcare vaccine mandates
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 01, 2021
Voluntary vaccination policies are not a sure path to herd immunity in healthcare facilities, APIC says. The infection control advocate has endorsed vaccine mandates as a condition of employment.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 1
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 01, 2021
AHCA vows to continue push toward 75% staff vaccination goal … Spikevax? Moderna, Pfizer wait for vaccine brand name approval in U.S. … Older women lost muscle strength, aerobic capacity during pandemic,...
Clinical briefs for Monday, June 21
By
Donna Shryer
Jun 21, 2021
New material could remove respiratory droplets from air … New clues point to the origin of Alzheimer’s disease … Advocating reimbursement parity for nurse practitioners … System helped hospital...