Nursing home COVID deaths level off, likely due to visits, unvaccinated staff, AARP reports
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 14, 2021
The virus remains a threat, with more than 10,000 residents and staff members contracting the disease and 800 dying from it each month in federally certified facilities, according to a new analysis of...
New workplace COVID safety rules add protection and reporting requirements
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Kimberly Marselas
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 11, 2021
Fifteen months after the start of the pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Thursday issued an emergency temporary standard designed to protect healthcare workers — specifically...
Safety means ‘seeing the virus’: Atria recounts rollout of 18,000 tests early in pandemic
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 09, 2021
Finding a way to conduct COVID-19 testing among 31,000 residents and staff members across multiple states helped the senior living giant to “seal out” outbreaks and show that its communities were safe...
Facing senior care’s ‘new normal’ head-on
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Fred Bonaccorso
Jun 08, 2021
According to a recent analysis of Medicare fee-for-service claims incurred through May 2020, there has been a distinct decline in the number of routine hospitalizations among beneficiaries — but a steep...
Time for government – not nursing homes – to shoulder collective COVID-19 blame
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Brendan Williams
Jun 07, 2021
In his 1964 State of the Union Address, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that “[e]very American community will benefit from the construction or modernization of schools and libraries and hospitals...
Use the ‘5 C’s’ to tackle COVID vaccine hesitancy, physicians say
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 04, 2021
The reasons for vaccine hesitancy — a delay in acceptance or refusal to be vaccinated — can be boiled down to five important factors that may help clinicians understand and better approach this issue,...
Power up post-COVID hiring, infection control and EHR efforts with expertise from June 14 McKnight’s...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 03, 2021
The next McKnight’s Power Panel, “Preparing for business after the main COVID-19 storm” will help you train your focus on key strategies. The free, 60-minute session begins at 1 p.m. ET on June 14.
With them for the long haul
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Erin Johnson
Kourtne DeJean Donnaud
Jun 03, 2021
According to Harvard Health Blog, recent studies indicate that 50-80% of patients recovered from COVID-19 continue to have at least one adverse symptom three months after the onset, even if the patient...
Providers tell CMS it’s ‘decidedly’ the wrong time to toy with PDPM rates
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 03, 2021
Providers need more time before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would implement any adjustments to PDPM payment rates, operators and associations have told the agency in official comments.
FDA OKs third antibody COVID therapy; variants spur new pause on another
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 01, 2021
A new COVID-19 treatment made by GlaxoSmithKline now is the third monoclonal antibody therapy federally authorized to help prevent severe disease outcomes in high-risk patients. But gene variants are interfering...