Clinical Care: Managing COVID Positive Residents

The June 18, 2020 National Nursing Home Training Call (4^th in the series): Clinical Care: Managing COVID-Positive Residents was a great session!  If you missed the session, want to experience it again and/or share the information with a colleague or your team, here’s the webpage with those materials:

• Presentation slides
• Anticoagulation of Patients with COVID 19 in PALTC ... AMDA
• Applying COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Strategies in Nursing Homes ... CDC
• Clinical Care: Managing COVID-Positive Residents (webinar recording)

If you haven’t already done so, you can register on that website to receive information about this webinar series, including additional resources and tools!

Audience

Open to nursing home leaders, clinical and administrative staff members and others interested in nursing home infection prevention in the era of COVID-19.

Event Description

The National Nursing Home Training Series is brought to you by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the QIO Program, a national network of Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) serving every state and territory.

Invitations are distributed weekly for each training in the series. Sign up here for updates. Miss a training? View recordings, slides and resources on QIOProgram.org.

This Week’s Topic

Clinical Care: Managing COVID Positive Residents

The clinical management of COVID positive and presumed COVID positive residents requires understanding the various disease trajectories and having appropriate plans of care in place that align with each residents’ goals and preferences. It also requires working with medical directors and clinicians to have the needed medications and other treatments available. This webinar will review the key considerations for the clinical management of COVID positive and presumed COVID positive residents.