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  • Register for CMS March 23 National Partnership Call: Dementia-Related Psychosis in LTC

    Thursday, March 4, 2021 | CMS
    Long-Term Care: Dementia-related Psychosis Call

    When: Tuesday, March 23, 2021, from 1:30 to 3 pm ET

    • Presentation: Available prior to the event
    • Audio recording and transcript: Available approximately 2 weeks after the event

    Description:

    National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement

    During this call, learn about the appropriate assessment, accurate diagnosis, and approaches to care for dementia-related psychosis in the long-term care setting. Hear about customized care strategies for nursing home residents. A question and answer session follows the presentations.

    Speakers: Dr. George Grossberg, Dr. Alexis Eastman, Susan Scanland, and Dr. Chad Worz from the Gerontological Society of America’s Workgroup on Dementia-Related Psychosis

    Target Audience:

    • Consumer and advocacy groups
    • Nursing home providers
    • Surveyor community
    • Prescribers
    • Professional associations
    • Other interested stakeholders
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  • Staffing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Guide for Nursing Home Leaders (2/21)

    Tuesday, February 23, 2021 | IHI
    A resource guide, written by and for directors of nursing, administrators, and other nursing home leaders, outlines steps to reduce or eliminate urgent staff shortages, particularly shortages of direct care workers. This guide is from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Project ECHO, a project of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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  • CDC COVID-19 Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel Updated (2/21)

    Tuesday, February 23, 2021 | CDC

    Updates as of February 10, 2021

    • Updated the Implement Universal Use of Personal Protective Equipment section to expand options for source control and patient care activities in areas of moderate to substantial transmission and describe strategies for improving fit of facemasks. Definitions of source control are included at the end of this document.
    • Included a reference to Optimizing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Supplies that include a hierarchy of strategies to implement when PPE are in short supply or unavailable.
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  • Emergency Preparedness Report: Identifying and Overcoming Healthcare Communications Vulnerabilities (2/21)

    Monday, February 22, 2021 | ASPR TRACIE

    ASPR TRACIE Emergency Preparedness Report: Identifying and Overcoming Healthcare Communications Vulnerabilities: Nashville, TN

    While the Christmas morning recreational vehicle blast outside the AT&T transmission facility in Nashville did not cause a mass fatality incident, it significantly impacted healthcare communications throughout the region. This article describes the impacts, lessons learned, strengths, and challenges faced by two professionals with different perspectives of the Nashville healthcare system.

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  • CDC NHSN LTCF Optional Weekly COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting Module Update (2/21)

    Monday, February 22, 2021 | CDC

    Weekly HCP & Resident COVID-19 Vaccination Data Reporting

    Long-term care facilities can track weekly COVID-19 vaccination data for residents and healthcare personnel (HCP) through NHSN. This reporting is currently optional.

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  • National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-term Care Facility COVID-19 Reporting Module Website UPDATED (2/21)

    Sunday, February 21, 2021 | CDC

    CDC’s NHSN provides healthcare facilities, such as long-term care facilities (LTCFs), with a secure reporting platform for reporting outcomes and process measures in a systematic way. Reported data are immediately available for use in strengthening local and national surveillance, monitoring trends in infection rates, assisting in identifying resource insecurities, and informing progress toward infection prevention goals.

    The NHSN Long-term Care Facility Component supports the nation’s COVID-19 response through the LTCF COVID-19 Module. Facilities eligible to report data to NHSN’s COVID-19 Module include nursing homes/skilled nursing, long-term care for the developmentally disabled, and assisted living facilities.

    Data reported into the LTCF COVID-19 Module Surveillance Reporting Pathways facilitate assessment of the impact of COVID-19 through facility reported surveillance data. Examples of data reported in the pathways include:

    ·         Counts of residents and facility personnel newly positive for COVID-19 based on viral test results.

    ·         COVID-19 vaccination status of residents newly positive for COVID-19.

    ·         Re-infections in residents and facility personnel previously infected with COVID-19.

    ·         COVID-19 related death counts among residents and facility personnel.

    ·         Staffing shortages.

    ·         Availability and surge capacity use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and alcohol-based hand rub.

    ·         Monoclonal therapeutic availability and use.

    ·         Ventilator capacity and supplies for facilities with ventilator-dependent units.

    The Point-of-Care (POC) Test Reporting Tool is a separate reporting option for LTCFs to report SARS-CoV-2 test results provided by a POC device. NHSN routes reported POC laboratory test result data to the public health agency at the local or state level with jurisdictional authority and responsibility for receiving those data. Important: the reporting of POC test result data in this tool does not take the place of answering POC related questions in the Resident Impact and Facility Capacity surveillance reporting pathway.

    Weekly reporting of COVID-19 vaccination data for residents and healthcare personnel is another option available to LTCFs. Additional information about surveillance and vaccination reporting, please visit the Weekly HCP & Resident COVID-19 Vaccination webpage.

    LTCF data submission options include manual data entry, CSV file submission by individual facilities or bulk CSV file upload for multiple facilities, and/or NHSN DIRECT CDA Automation for the Point-of-Care (POC) Test Reporting Tool.

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  • Emergency Preparedness: Healthcare Cybersecurity Readiness and Response (2/21)

    Sunday, February 21, 2021 | ASPR TRACIE
    As part of our nation’s critical infrastructure, healthcare facilities large and small must be proactive and move quickly to protect themselves from cyberattacks that could directly impact the health and safety of patients and the community at large. According to medical health experts experienced in cybersecurity preparedness, cyberattacks are identified as the top threat in many healthcare systems’ annual Hazard Vulnerable Analyses (HVA).  Healthcare System Cybersecurity: Readiness and Response Considerations addresses this threat.
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  • 2021 Patient Safety Chartbook From AHRQ (2/21)

    Thursday, February 18, 2021 | AHRQ
    AHRQ has released the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Chartbook on Patient Safety 2021, which offers an overview of nonidentifiable, aggregated patient safety event and near-miss information that has been voluntarily reported by AHRQ-listed Patient Safety Organizations. The Chartbook outlines the extent of harm reported, distribution of patient safety events, near misses, and unsafe conditions. The iteration of the Chartbook contains reports not included in the prior NPSD Chartbook. Nursing home-specific data is included.
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  • Five-Star Helpline Open Feb. 22 - 26

    Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | QTSO

    The Five Star Preview Reports were available on February 15, 2021. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the 'Folders' button and access the Five Star Report in your 'st LTC facid' folder, where 'st' is the 2-character postal code of the state in which your facility is located and 'facid' is the state-assigned Facility ID of your facility.

    Nursing Home Compare will update with the February Five Star data on February 24, 2021.

    Important Note: The 5 Star Help Line (800-839-9290) will be available February 22 through February 26, 2021.

    Please direct your inquiries to BetterCare@cms.hhs.gov  if the Help Line is not available.

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  • CDC Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of PPE and Other Equipment (12/20)

    Monday, February 15, 2021 | CDC

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers strategies for optimizing the supply of:

    N95 respirators

    Face masks

    Isolation gowns

    Eye Protection

    Gloves

    Powered Air-Purifying Respirators (PAPRs)

    Elastomeric respirators

    Ventilators

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