FDA panel endorses emergency use authorization for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 10, 2020
Nursing home residents and workers may be just days away from getting the initial doses of the first COVID-19 vaccine, after a federal advisory panel approved its emergency use Thursday.
Clinical Briefs for Tuesday, March 17
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 16, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine trial begins in Seattle: NIH … CDC posts guideline for COVID-19 single upper respiratory swabs … Coronavirus antibody treatment strategy could be only weeks away, docs say
Honoring our fallen
By
Sara Bender
May 04, 2022
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” — Helen Keller. These past two years of the pandemic have presented clinical challenges...
COVID-19 causing insomnia among many caregivers: These tips may help
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 14, 2020
Stress-related insomnia troubled more than a third of medical caregivers during peak periods of coronavirus activity in China, say researchers. An insomnia expert has solutions.
Researchers find coronavirus in air 16 feet from ill patient
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 13, 2020
Researchers from the University of Florida say they have proven that floating respiratory droplets contain live coronavirus.
Federal guidance on vaccine mandate ‘can’t come soon enough’: expert
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 08, 2021
Guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all healthcare workers can’t come soon enough for those in nursing homes, according to one industry...
Family throws birthday bash outside of Minnesota resident’s window
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 09, 2020
Nursing homes are celebrating birthdays a little bit differently in response to the coronavirus pandemic. One family of a Minnesota nursing home patient recently took the party outside to mark the big...
CDC no longer recommends COVID test-based return-to-work strategy in most cases
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2020
A COVID test-based return-to-work strategy no longer is recommended for healthcare professionals in most cases under updated criteria released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Common flaw: Governments around the world failed to protect nursing home residents and staff
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 11, 2020
Nursing homes around the world were excluded from emergency preparation plans as government’s rushed to ensure that hospitals could handle an onslaught of coronavirus patients during the beginning of...
Kramer: Industry won’t return to the ‘old normal’ after COVID-19
By
Danielle Brown
May 07, 2020
The long-term care industry will never be the same following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a leading expert.