CDC releases guidance on preventing spread of coronavirus in senior living communities … Healthcare workers report psychiatric symptoms amid pandemic … Patient organizations urge feds to ease limits...
Clinical Briefs for Monday, March 23
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 23, 2020
Millions of seniors live in counties with no ICU beds, posing extra coronavirus dangers … Act’s passage means more masks for healthcare workers fighting COVID-19 … CDC provides guidance on when workers...
Clinical Briefs for Friday, March 20
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 19, 2020
Three-drug combination reduces all-cause COPD mortality by 42% … COVID-19 death rate lower than estimated, at 1.4% in outbreak epicenter … FDA: Stop SLGT2 inhibitors for diabetes prior to surgery
Clinical Briefs for Thursday, March 19
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 19, 2020
Coronavirus session featured today in McKnight’s Online Expo … COVID-19 and senior care will be topic of March 25 webinar … Presence of pets may protect against suicide in seniors … Fecal microbiota...
Nursing home occupancy rose slightly in 4Q, NIC says
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 19, 2020
The percentage of filled beds in skilled nursing facilities continued its path toward stabilization, according to new data released Wednesday by the National Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC).
Communication services become essential with meetings canceled, telework encouraged
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 18, 2020
Several companies with employee communication and hiring platforms have expanded their services or made them free as healthcare providers promote telework for nonessential staff and reduce face-to-face...
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, March 18
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 17, 2020
CMS expands telehealth Medicare coverage to nursing home beneficiaries as COVID-19 strategy … CMS waives three-day stay requirement, MDS deadlines …Vitamin D boosts chances of walking after hip fracture...
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
Clinical Briefs for Monday, March 16
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 14, 2020
At-risk staff offered a place to stay at Affinity facilities during COVID-19 outbreak … Study details the first known US person-to-person coronavirus transmission … Senators to introduce bill addressing...
Clinical Briefs for Friday, March 13
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 13, 2020
Surgery with anesthesia not linked to Alzheimer’s, study finds … Guidance released for dialysis facilities during COVID-19 outbreak … New book details roadmap to prevent and treat Parkinson’s...