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03/09/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | March 5
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Quantifying Risk for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Nursing Home Workers For 2020/2021 Winter Surge of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Georgia, U.S.A
- JAMDA: Formal and Informal Relationships Between Nursing Homes and Hospital Systems are Common but do they Improve Care?
Research Reports/White Papers
- CDC: Nationwide COVID-19 Infection-Induced Antibody Seroprevalence
- Drug candidate designed by NIH scientists reduced brain inflammation, protected against cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s mouse model
- SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals could have different variants hidden in different parts of the body
- Arthritis drug shown to reduce risk of COVID death in large UK trial
- Medicaid Home & Community-Based Services: People Served and Spending During COVID-19
News/News Analysis
- AMDA calls for public list of industry’s ‘underutilized’ and ‘invisible’ medical directors
- ‘They heard us’: Partner program to allow fast LTC access to federal stock of COVID-19 drugs
- White House Releases New National COVID-?19 Preparedness Plan
- Biden’s Promise of Better Nursing Home Care Will Require Many More Workers
- White House pledges quicker access to COVID medications
- CMS assures it wants provider input before issuing staffing, other rules
- These medical innovations are good news for aging adults
- The Post-COVID Era May Present Special Challenges for Seniors
- ‘Price Gouging’ Leads More Nursing Homes to Launch In-House Staffing Agencies
- CNAs cite staffing shortage as biggest on-the-job challenge: survey
- Competing Incentives: How Improving the Transition to Home Can Pay Off for Nursing Homes