Policy Snapshot
May 31, 2024
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Spotlight
September 8, 2025
COVID Vaccine Update (September 2025)
An update on the current approval status of COVID-19 vaccines, what it means for patients, pharmacies, and healthcare teams, and how PALTmed is supporting post-acute and long-term care providers during respiratory virus season.
Spotlight
November 2, 2023
Toolkit Helps Providers Develop Public Messaging about the Benefits of Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, and Hospice
Practice Resource
March 26, 2026
Introducing the PALTmed Ethics Toolkit
JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Building Trust to Protect Nursing Home Staff and Residents
Vaccines are critical to protect both nursing home residents and staff from COVID-19, but some staff have expressed reservations about being vaccinated. In this brief report, we describe interventions that Genesis HealthCare—one of the largest US long-term care providers—implemented after recognizing midwa...
JAMDA
February 15, 2019
Cost Benefit of High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccine in a Long-Term Care Population During an A/H1N1-Predominant Influenza Season
Influenza is a leading cause of admissions for nursing home (NH) residents. We previously evaluated the effectiveness of a high-dose trivalent influenza vaccine (HD) compared to a standard-dose influenza vaccine (SD) through a cluster-randomized trial of NH residents. Fewer residents from facilities rando...
JAMDA
May 30, 2025
Which Enhanced Influenza Vaccine Has the Greatest Immunogenicity in Long-Term Care Residents: The Adjuvanted or the High-Dose Formulation?
This study compares enhanced influenza vaccines recommended for older adults, adjuvanted flu vaccine (aTIV, FLUAD) vs high-dose flu vaccine (HD-IIV3, FLUZONE HD) to determine if they met noninferiority standards for older long-term care facility (LTCF) residents.
JAMDA
March 20, 2021
“Somebody Like Me”: Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Staff in Skilled Nursing Facilities
The vaccination of skilled nursing facility (SNF) staff is a critical component in the battle against COVID-19. Together, residents and staff constitute the single most vulnerable population in the pandemic. The health of these workers is completely entangled with the health of those they care for. Vaccina...
JAMDA
January 6, 2023
Evidence on the Effects of the Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Nursing Home Staffing Levels
To assess the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate's effects on nursing homes' nurse aide and licensed nurse staffing levels in states both with and without state-level vaccine mandates.
JAMDA
June 7, 2023
Association of Sources of COVID-19 Information with Vaccine Uptake, Preventive Behaviors, and Perceived Severity of COVID-19
To investigate the association of using informal sources and reliance on multiple sources of information with actual COVID-19 vaccine uptake, the number of doses of vaccine received, COVID-19 testing, essential preventive measures, and perceived severity of COVID-19.
