‘Game-changing’: Senior living giant Good Sam mandates employee COVID-19 vaccination
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2021
In an email to employees on Thursday, Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Good Sam parent company Sanford Health, said that requiring Good Sam and other Sanford employees to get a “game-changing vaccine”...
Clinical briefs for Monday, July 26
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 26, 2021
U.S. purchase of 200M more Pfizer vaccine doses may foreshadow booster shot needs: report … Pandemic prostate cancer surgery disparities are a surprise to investigators … Scientists reverse age-related...
Online tool helps take guesswork out of COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 23, 2021
The LTCF Simulation dashboard uses facility and community data — such as proposed test schedules, number of shift workers, vaccination rates and community case prevalence — to help LTC administrators...
American Hospital Association ‘strongly’ urges mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 23, 2021
Vaccination protects personnel at work and in the community, and reduces the risk of unintentionally bringing the disease to work and transmitting it to patients and peers, AHA said.
Intervention clears short-stay residents’ rooms of multi-drug resistant organisms
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 23, 2021
A trial in six Michigan nursing homes that included chlorhexidine bathing significantly reduced the prevalence of drug-resistant organisms in the residents’ rooms when compared with control nursing homes,...
Clinical briefs for Friday, July 23
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 23, 2021
Without fingerprinting, senior living workers barred from providing direct care … Fauci: Vaccinated people ‘might want to consider’ wearing masks indoors as COVID-19 cases surge … Continuing pimavanserin...
Monoclonal antibodies cut COVID-19 hospitalizations in high-risk adults: Mayo Clinic
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
Patients treated early in the disease with either one of two antibody therapies had similarly low rates of hospitalization within 28 days.
Feds wait for lowered vaccine efficacy to recommend COVID-19 booster shots
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will not be necessary until mRNA vaccines become less effective, federal health officials say. But immunocompromised Americans are potential near-term recipients, they told...
Cognitive decline tied to faster rate of bone loss, fracture risk: study
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
Women who experience cognitive decline may not only have faster bone loss than their peers, but have greater odds of fracturing a bone in the next 10 years — no matter the level of bone loss, investigators...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 22
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
JEA Senior Living to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees in its 40 communities … CDC: U.S. life expectancy declines to its lowest level in nearly 20 years … High-risk VA population responds well...