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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.
Free At-Home COVID Tests on Way for Medicare Beneficiaries
February 03, 2022
Beneficiaries in both original Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans will be able to obtain 8 free at-home COVID-19 tests a month.
Weekly Rounds with Infection Control Today: Beware Stealth Omicron, How Long is Long COVID?, How IPs Help Patients
January 28, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending January 28.
Infection Preventionist Called on to Rescue Nursing Homes Hit by Omicron
January 24, 2022
Linda Spaulding, a member of ICT®’s Editorial Advisory Board, and a consultant, plans to fly out to Hawaii later this week to advise her LTCF clients in that state about how best to get through the current surge.
Weekly Rounds with Infection Control Today: Omicron Threat, Dental Sterilization, Fixing Nursing Homes
December 17, 2021
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending December 17
Changes COVID-19 Brought to Long-Term Care Facilities
December 13, 2021
Having an infection preventionist on site or as a consultant to lead infection prevention and control training makes a difference. The ability to screen, isolate, or group patients can save lives. Ongoing testing of residents and staff is critical.
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.