Tag: Nursing Homes / Elder Care

Adjusted effectiveness 53.1 percent against infection in nursing home residents during period when delta strain was predominant

New mandate, which will come in the form of a regulation to be issued by CMS, could happen next month

Order issued as the most populous state in the country struggles to slow infections caused by the highly contagious delta variant

Employees have until Aug. 23 to get their first shot

56.8 percent of HCP are fully vaccinated, with coverage higher for physicians and advanced practice providers than for nurses, aides

New policy means that regulators can impose either per-day or per-instance penalties

There were 101 Candida auris cases at a nursing home and 22 cases at hospitals from January to April

Conventional measures of staff quality, including direct care staff-to-resident ratio did not predict COVID-19 cases, deaths

New report includes data from early in 2020, making it the most comprehensive to date from the government

Risk for PCR-positive infection higher for residents, staff of long-term care facilities who were antibody-negative at baseline