Caring for the Ages
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Policy Snapshot
January 17, 2025
CDC Announces 2025 Vaccine Schedule Updates
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued changes in the 2025 immunization schedule for children, adolescents, and adults. These changes include new and updated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, influenza vaccines, meningococcal serogroup B vaccines, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (...
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. ...
Policy Snapshot
December 1, 2023
CDC Issues Food Safety Alert for LTC Facilities
The CDC has issued a food safety alert regarding an outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to cantaloupes. The CDC is concerned about this outbreak because the illnesses are severe, and people in long-term care facilities and childcare centers have gotten sick. Do not eat pre-cut cantaloupes if you don’t...
Clinical Alerts
October 23, 2024
CDC Recommends Second Dose of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine for People 65 Years and Older and for People Who are Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised
Caring for the Ages
August 29, 2016
CDC To Jump-Start Antibiotic Resistance Research
Caring for the Ages
August 29, 2015
CDC: Coordinated Strategy Will Curb Resistant Infections
Caring for the Ages
March 2, 2015
Celebrate a Day of Recognition for All PA/LTC Physicians
Caring for the Ages
March 2, 2015
Celebrate LTC Physicians Day
Spotlight
October 6, 2025
Celebrating 25 Years of the Futures Program
The Futures Program, jointly run by PALTmed and the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine, was created to introduce residents, fellows, advanced practice providers, and allied health professionals to a career in PALTC medicine. Since its inception in 2001, more than 1,500 individual...
