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Long-Term Care
The Infection Control Today® chronic and long-term care facilities page provides news, updates, and guidance on tackling infection prevention in these unique environments, including nursing homes, skilled nursing centers, and assisted-living facilities. This page includes news on cleaning, disinfection, antibiotic stewardship, hand hygiene, isolation precautions, outbreak protocol, and more as administrators and infection prevention teams seek to curb outbreaks of pneumonia, influenza, Clostridioides difficile, urinary tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections, among others.
The Young, the Old, and COVID-19
October 13, 2021
As COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates head downward, pediatric SARS-CoV-2 rates rise, and nursing homes can again become disaster zones. And remember: Winter is coming.
COVID-19 Surges Stress Infection Preventionists to the Breaking Point
September 24, 2021
Infection preventionists across health care settings struggle with a myriad of problems during this pandemic. IPs at nursing homes have it particularly hard.
Weekly Rounds with Infection Control Today: Mu Antibody Resistance, Drugs to Fight Candida Auris, Quarantined Workers
September 17, 2021
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending September 17.
Who Will Get Nursing Homes Off Life Support?
September 16, 2021
Linda Spaulding, RB-BC, CIC: “The time to hold nursing homes accountable is not the time when everything’s falling apart, and they don’t know what to do, and there’s nobody there to guide them.”
Weekly Rounds with Infection Control Today: Stop the Variants, Booster Shot Questions, What’s New in NICUs
August 20, 2021
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending August 20.
Legislation Requires Fulltime Infection Preventionists at Nursing Homes
August 11, 2021
The Nursing Home Improvement and Accountability Act of 2021 bolsters the standing of infection preventionists, but begs the question: Where’s the money going to come from?
Hot Topics in Infection Prevention: Unstoppable Delta, Lockdown v. Reopen, Antibiotic Overprescribing in Nursing Homes
July 21, 2021
As the Delta variant is estimated to be around 50% more transmissible than the original strain, the CDC has been emphasizing the need to improve stagnated vaccine rates.
COVID-19 Isn’t Done with Us Yet, Medical Experts Warn
July 20, 2021
The pandemic could leave in its wake a “tsunami” of chronic health conditions in younger people, including serious heart problems.
Weekly Rounds with Infection Control Today: Recruiting Infection Preventionists
July 02, 2021
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending July 2.
One Quarter of U.S. Nursing Homes Might Not be Here by Next Year
June 29, 2021
Almost half of nursing homes and assisted living facilities are operating at a loss, while 84% of nursing homes are losing revenue this year because fewer post-acute patients are coming to them from hospitals.