Data reported by nursing homes to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) system COVID-19 Long Term Care Facility Module, including Resident Impact, Facility Capacity, Staff & Personnel, and Supplies & Personal Protective Equipment, and Ventilator Capacity and Supplies Data Elements for week ending August 23, 2020 is now available. … Read More
CMS updates Medicare COVID-19 snapshot
September 3, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released their monthly update of data that provides a snapshot of the impact of COVID-19 on the Medicare population. The updated data show over 773,000 COVID-19 cases among the Medicare population and nearly 215,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. [Note: As of … Read More
CMS-CDC fundamentals of COVID-19 prevention for nursing home management
CMS-CDC Fundamentals of COVID-19 Prevention for Nursing Home Management is a website you’ll want to bookmark and check often. On this website you’ll find upcoming webinar topics, recordings posted after the webinar, presentation slides and additional resources. I have found these webinars to be very informative. They are 1-hour webinars … Read More
CMS updated LTC survey resources
On August 31, 2020, CMS posted updated LTC Survey Resources. (The date on the overall webpage has not been updated since May 2020 so you have to look to close to see if anything new is there.) The new/updated resources include:Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files UPDATED 08/31/2020 … Read More
Dementia care in nursing homes (Upcoming call)
When: Tuesday, September 22, 2020, from 1:30 to 3 pm ET Registration: Register for Medicare Learning Network events. Event Materials: Presentation: Available prior to the event at CMS MLN Events Audio recording and transcript: Available approximately 2 weeks after the event Description:National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance ImprovementDuring this … Read More