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CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

May 9, 2023

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

Federal Infection Prevention and Nursing Home Visitation Guidance Updated as End of PHE Nears

Updated CDC and CMS guidance documents contain a few key changes, but continue many of the same infection prevention measures set forth in prior versions.

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May 8, 2023

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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May 2, 2023

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

CDC Announces Termination of Community Transmission and Community Level Metrics

Metrics to sunset with end of federal COVID-19 PHE on May 11th.

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January 31, 2023

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

CDC Issues Reports on Effectiveness of Bivalent Booster in Nursing Home Residents

Nursing home members encouraged to review reports.

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September 26, 2022

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

CDC Updates COVID-19 Recommendations for Health Care Settings

The CDC has issued updates to its COVID-19 infection prevention guidance for health care personnel and guidance for managing exposed and infected health care personnel. It has also retired its nursing home-specific infection prevention guidance and incorporated guidance for nursing homes into the more general guidance. In addition, CMS has updated its nursing home visitation guidance and testing guidance to align with the CDC guidance.

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September 23, 2022

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

Strategies to Mitigate Healthcare Personnel Staffing Shortages

This guidance is to assist health care facilities in mitigating health care personnel staffing shortages that might occur because of COVID-19.

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September 23, 2022

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2
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June 14, 2022

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

New Admission Quarantine and Testing Reminder

Members are reminded that the CDC issued guidance on Feb. 2, 2022 recommending quarantine and testing of all new nursing home admissions and those who have left the facility for over 24 hours.

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June 13, 2022

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

CDC Holds Training on Event-Level Vaccination Data Form

Training slides, notes now available.

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May 31, 2022

CDC Guidance for Nursing Homes

NHSN Implements Reporting Changes

The CDC streamlines nursing home COVID-19 reporting modules, although several new questions have been added.

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