Policy Snapshot
March 15, 2024
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JAMDA
March 1, 2024
Changes in End-of-Life Symptom Management Prescribing among Long-Term Care Residents during COVID-19
To examine changes in the prescribing of end-of-life symptom management medications in long-term care (LTC) homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Policy Snapshot
March 1, 2024
OIG Releases Report On Lessons Learned During the Pandemic to Help Nursing Homes Improve Care
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report, Lessons Learned During the Pandemic Can Help Improve Care in Nursing Homes.
PALTmed In The News
February 14, 2024
Moving the needle in nursing home vaccination rates
On February 29, 2020, the first Coronavirus nursing home outbreak was reported by the media. Experts in geriatric and long-term care medicine immediately understood the dangers to nursing home residents. As the pandemic progressed, we lost many residents in our communities. It became eminently clear that o...
Policy Snapshot
January 19, 2024
CMS, CDC to Hold Immunization Webinar on January 31
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold a webinar, CDC and CMS Present Stories from the Field: Immunization Strategies for Long-term Care, on Wednesday, January 31, from 2:00-3:00 PM ET.
Policy Snapshot
January 19, 2024
CDC Has Improved the Nursing Homes Reporting Process for COVID-19 Data in NHSN, but Challenges Remain
CDC and nursing homes experienced difficulties during a mass enrollment of more than 12,000 facilities into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to begin reporting COVID-19 data in May 2020. CDC improved the process of nursing home reporting to NHSN throughout the pandemic, but challenges remain. ...
JAMDA
December 29, 2023
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Organizations Flip the Script in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Program of All-Inclusive Care (PACE) organizations faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly given PACE participants are frail older adults who often live with multiple disabilities and chronic conditions. This study describes how PACE programs leveraged their unique program flexib...
JAMDA
December 20, 2023
Associations Between Eating, Mobility, and Toileting Functional Dependence and COVID-19 Symptoms
The first goal of this study was to explore associations between functional dependence levels during activities of daily living (eg, functional mobility, eating, and toileting) before COVID-19 and presence of COVID-19 symptoms (eg, fever, dehydration, lethargy, and shortness of breath) during illness. The ...
JAMDA
December 14, 2023
Falls Risk in Long-Term Care Residents With Cognitive Impairment: Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on falls rates in long-term care residents with cognitive impairment.
JAMDA
December 8, 2023
COVID-19 Infection and Mortality in State Veterans Homes: A Multilevel Approach
Some state veterans homes (SVHs) received media attention in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic because of allegations of poor infection control and excess mortality. However, little research has investigated how these facilities differ from community nursing homes (CNHs) and what the geographical trends of...
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