Current staff vaccination rate not good enough to protect nursing home residents … ProMedica’s new social health initiative highlights senior care, pandemic ‘lessons learned’ … Biden under pressure...
CDC chief endorses COVID booster shots for nursing home residents, healthcare workers
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 24, 2021
Older and medically compromised adults and workers in high-risk settings should be offered third doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., said early Friday. Her decision...
Adopt new test, and take race out of kidney disease diagnostics, clinicians urged
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 24, 2021
Fewer Black patients will be left unaware of their true kidney function status if their healthcare providers switch to a diagnostic test that doesn’t rely on a race variable, according to a new report...
Current staff vaccination rate not good enough to protect nursing home residents
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Danielle Brown
Sep 24, 2021
Nursing home residents will remain at a high risk of contracting COVID-19 if the average vaccination rate among employees remains around its current rate, according to a top federal scientist.
CDC panel recommends COVID-19 boosters for long-term care residents
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Danielle Brown
Sep 24, 2021
Long-term care residents are one step closer to receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shots after an advisory panel affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved a key recommendation...
‘Clock is ticking’: House lawmakers urged to include support for long-term care in reconciliation...
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Danielle Brown
Sep 24, 2021
A proposal to increase Medicaid funding for long-term care providers must be part of the budget reconciliation bill currently being debated by House lawmakers, according to the long-term care advocacy...
BREAKING: CDC panel recommends COVID-19 boosters for long-term care residents
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Danielle Brown
Sep 23, 2021
Long-term care residents are one step closer to receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shots after an advisory panel affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved a key recommendation...
Just 1% of nursing homes are fully staffed
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Danielle Brown
Sep 23, 2021
Just 1% of nursing homes throughout the United States say they are currently fully staffed, according to a new survey by the AHCA/NCAL.
CDC tells how to coordinate resident, staff access to COVID vaccines
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 23, 2021
Long-term care providers can now better coordinate local access to COVID-19 vaccines for residents and staff.
New CDC vaccine access info covers COVID booster shots, ‘safety net’ support
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
With assurances to provide help as needed, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is sharing vaccine access information ahead of the federal COVID-19 vaccine booster shot approvals expected to come...