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11/17/2021
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | November 17
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- CMS: Revised Nursing Home Visitation - COVID-19
- CMS: Changes to COVID-19 Survey Activities and Increased Oversight in Nursing Homes
- Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on Infection Prevention for Healthcare Personnel Caring for Patients with Suspected or Known COVID-19
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Spillover effects of COVID-19 on essential chronic care and ways to foster health system resilience to support vulnerable non-COVID patients: a multistakeholder study
- Safety and immunogenicity of concomitant administration of COVID-19 vaccines (ChAdOx1 or BNT162b2) with seasonal influenza vaccines in adults in the UK (ComFluCOV): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 4 trial
- Promoting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA
- JAMDA: Delirium During Acute Events in Nursing Home Patients
- Strategies associated with COVID-19 vaccine coverage among nursing home staff
Research Reports/White Papers
Podcasts/Webinars
- TODAY at 12:00 M ET: FMDA's Journal Club | Nursing Home Staffing Perils
- CDC COCA: What Clinicians, Pharmacists, and Public Health Partners Need to Know about Antibiotic Prescribing and COVID-19. Thursday, November 18, 2021, 2:00–3:00 PM ET
- My patient is Admitted on Buprenorphine or Methadone – What Now?, November 18, 2021, 9:00 PM ET
- Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings, December 2, 2021, 3:00 PM ET; use code FREEWEBINAR
News/News Analysis
- CMS: Vaccination mandate will ease — not worsen — workforce shortages
- Booster shots fighting for attention with vaccine mandates as initial immunity starts to wane
- ‘Universal and persistent’: Surfaces near nursing home beds may harbor coronavirus for days
- New York nursing homes rank poorly on staffing
- Nursing Homes Have More Than Just a COVID Problem — Facilities must learn from the pandemic and improve infection control for a range of diseases
- Financial Transparency Legislation May Impact Nursing Home M&A, Operations
- Assisted living, nursing homes ‘desperate,’ hit worst by workforce crises: AHCA / NCAL