CONNECTICUT — Health officials here are encouraging providers to adopt visitor COVID-19 testing policies to prevent outbreaks at facilities.
December Company Briefs
Dec 01, 2020
TapestryHealth expanded its primary care services to assisted living and memory care. The company said its experience understanding seniors’ anxieties and dealing with psychiatric behaviors in skilled...
BREAKING: CDC panel formally gives LTC residents, workers top priority for COVID-19 vaccine
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2020
The immunization advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overwhelmingly affirmed on Tuesday that long-term care residents and healthcare workers will be given first access to...
December FocusOn Briefs
Dec 01, 2020
Company promotes disposable pads, NPWT incontinence care; Reusable N95 respirator inches closer to market; Nearly half of residents with COVID-19 asymptomatic: study; Company promotes disposable pads,...
Project aims to grow happiness
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Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2020
A New York-based grassroots effort launched to help nursing homes and their residents cope during the coronavirus pandemic has been able to send gifts to nearly 60 facilities nationwide with the help of...
Providers plead for vaccine priority to avoid more devastation as long-term care COVID deaths top 100K
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Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2020
Getting COVID-19 vaccines to seniors early could go a long way toward not repeating mistakes early in the pandemic that resulted in the long-term care industry being the hardest hit, provider advocates...
NJ unveils expansive new nursing home testing requirements
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Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2020
Nursing homes in New Jersey that receive BinaxNOW rapid, COVID-19 testing kits must test all workers and visitors for a two-week period under a new state directive.
Researchers testing LTC wastewater to catch COVID outbreaks earlier
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2020
Canadian researchers have started testing wastewater samples from long-term care facilities in hopes that it will help identify increases in COVID-19 cases faster.
Also in the News for Tuesday, Dec. 1
Dec 01, 2020
Negotiations resume between operator and 700 striking nursing home workers … OSHA fines NJ facility more than $22K for COVID-19 violations … Pennsylvania governor vetoes bill that would have protected...
SavaSeniorCare expands physician partnership program after initial success against COVID
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 30, 2020
SavaSeniorCare was able to successfully recover more than 1,000 residents with COVID-19 after teaming up with a physician group to launch a pilot program at about a dozen facilities when the pandemic first...