On-site communication tools provide family check-ins
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2020
New and discounted communication tools that help providers, residents and families connect despite COVID-19 restrictions continue to emerge. For example, software maker SafeKeeping has begun providing...
BookJane’s hiring platform free for healthcare users
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2020
BookJane is offering healthcare facilities and staffing agencies the free ability to use its platform to help relieve staffing shortages and labor inefficiencies in hard-hit markets. “We want to ensure...
Classic COVID-19 symptoms not always apparent in elderly residents
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 01, 2020
Fever may be blunted or absent entirely, and respiratory symptoms may also be masked or exacerbated by co-occurring disease.
Nursing homes in need of more direct-care workers have received a big boost from federal regulators.
Retired nurses ‘reluctant’ to join coronavirus battle
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 01, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has brought pleas from across the country for retired nurses, doctors and other clinicians to re-engage to help alleviate staffing shortages.
More states, operators race clock to create COVID-only treatment areas
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 01, 2020
More providers across the country are now considering converting traditional nursing homes to created COVID-only recovery facilities.
Coronavirus three times as infectious as the flu; social distancing a ‘powerful weapon’ against next...
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2020
Seasonal recurrence may require repeat social distancing measures. That’s no comfort for the 400 eldercare facilities now dealing with outbreaks.
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, April 1
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2020
COVID-19 patients often infected with other respiratory viruses: early study … Providers trying to ‘MacGyver’ their way around COVID-19 … Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies warned not to stockpile...
Communicating with patients and families during COVID-19: Five messages to consider
By
Virginia Feldman, M.D.
Mar 31, 2020
It has now been more than two weeks since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new measures to protect nursing home residents from COVID-19. Already, providers, patients and family...
CMS clears way for more nursing home COVID testing, even more telehealth use
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 31, 2020
An “unprecedented” collection of regulatory waivers and new rules announced by federal health officials Monday will pave the way for more COVID testing of nursing home residents.