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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.
One Method to Contain COVID-19 at Nursing Homes
June 21, 2021
Here's one method of containing COVID-19 at nursing homes: Pair long-term care facilities (LTCF) staff and residents who've recovered with susceptible residents to help reduce transmission. It seems to work, says a study.
Health Care Disparities Uncovered in Nursing Homes
June 08, 2021
Investigators with Columbia University School of Nursing found that COVID-19 infections were 13.6 percentage points higher in nursing homes with 50% or more Black residents, and deaths were 3.5 percentage points higher, compared with nursing homes with no Black residents.
Despite Billions in Aid, Nursing Homes Losing Employees in Droves
May 10, 2021
Nursing homes, already strapped for employees, lost about 19,500 workers last month, according to government figures. Question: What’s happened to all the funding nursing homes have gotten because of COVID-19?
Social Distancing Indoors: One Size Does Not Fit All
April 26, 2021
MIT professors argue that many variables should be included when determining just how much social distancing is needed in different indoor settings.
Proper Treatment of UTIs Often Eludes Nursing Homes, Hospitals
April 21, 2021
Investigators University of Michigan-Flint, School of Nursing noted that the Cooper Tool and the Stone criteria are similar but use different methods to arrive at a UTI diagnosis.
Postcards From the Edge: Lessons Taught by COVID-19
April 14, 2021
One thing that will haunt me and many health care personnel in both acute care and LTCFs forever is that so many people died without a family member at their bedside.
Possible New COVID Variant Causes Outbreak in Highly Vaccinated Nursing Home
March 17, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 is aerosolized. If a non-vaccinated person who is shedding the virus visits a vaccinated relative in a nursing home, he can easily spread the virus to all who reside in the facility.
COVID Variant Spreads Among Kentucky Nursing Home Residents
March 16, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak hits Kentucky nursing home a week after CMS relaxes visiting restrictions.
Viewpoint: Nursing Home Guidance Endangers Elderly
March 11, 2021
The CMS update on when nursing home residents can have visitors raises grave concerns. The recommendation appears to assume that herd immunity is reached at 70%.
Visits to Most Nursing Home Residents Again Allowed
March 11, 2021
In CMS’ official announcement easing restrictions for visiting nursing homes, no mention was made of the year anniversary—marked today—of when the WHO officially labeled COVID-19 a global pandemic. Still, in so many words, the agency said enough is enough.