CDC: COVID vaccines safe during pregnancy, allaying a top concern of nursing home workers
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 28, 2021
Pregnancy concerns are cited as one of the top reasons for vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers, but there were no obvious signs of third trimester adverse events among pregnant women who received...
CDC devises new way to estimate flu-related deaths
Aug 30, 2010
Many healthcare workers may be familiar with this statistic: Each year, roughly 36,000 people die from influenza. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is walking away from this decades-old...
BioMask helps minimize spread of flu
Jan 02, 2013
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is warning providers to brace for a challenging flu season. Medline’s recently-introduced BioMask is one way providers can target the flu bug.
Let’s hope this flu remedy goes viral
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 10, 2013
Some people might dream of owning a professional football or baseball team. Right now, I’m wishing I owned a nursing home. Then I could immediately fire all the people who deserved it.
Chew on this: Obesity rates a challenge
By
John O'Connor
Jul 29, 2013
For any way you slice it, too many of us are lugging around excessive weight. And the problem is only getting worse. In 1962, the nation’s obesity rate was 13%. It now stands at 35.7%, according...
COVID deaths now ‘entirely preventable’ due to vaccines, CDC director says
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 24, 2021
High vaccine efficacy in the United States means that “every death due to COVID-19 is particularly tragic because nearly every death, especially among adults … [is] entirely preventable,”...
Updated guidance includes CDC recommending 14-day quarantine for facility residents who go off-site for...
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 05, 2021
Nursing homes are being encouraged to quarantine residents who leave the facility for more than 24 hours under updated guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nursing home COVID-19 deaths, cases spiking, hit ‘pre-vaccine’ levels
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 25, 2022
COVID-19 deaths among nursing home staff members are again surging throughout facilities, hitting their highest level since January of this year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control...
Nurses union: CDC rushed new infection control rules
By
Kristen Fischer
Nov 07, 2023
The National Nurses United (NNU) spoke out against recent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention action to finalize infection control guidelines that affect long-term care communities. The NNU says...
CDC starts much-anticipated training for mandatory COVID-19 reporting by nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 30, 2020
Details about the new process nursing homes will have to use to report COVID-19 infections and deaths directly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began flowing Wednesday.