This fact sheet summarizes best practices for national implementation to sustain personalprotective equipment while ensuring the protection of healthcare personnel and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
This document provides ideas for keeping in touch with loved ones living in long-term care facilities when you are unable to visit them in-person.
This toolkit is a compilation of considerations for long-term care facilities based on lessons learned during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied by resources to inform planning and response efforts.
This preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.
This document provides a list of COVID-19 testing vendors for long term care. The list contains the vendor's name, company details, testing process description, turnaround time, test and billing information, service area and contact information.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
This worksheet supplements the Primary Care Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Screening (PC-PTSD-5) instrument.
This document provides key information for employing several waivers of requirements that would normally be in place for providers to receive reimbursement under Medicare or Medicaid.
This tool can be used to assess and monitor the structural capacities of facilities to (i) allow safe COVID‑19 case management; (ii) continue to deliver essential services; and (iii) enable surge planning.
This resource includes instructions for starter exercises for huddle facilitators.
This document answers questions related to nursing home visitation during COVID-19, including but not limited to the steps nursing homes should take before reopening to visitors, visitation for compassionate care situations, outside visits, communal visits, and visits from the ombudsman.
This flyer offers tips for identifying and managing stress.
The partnership survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and The Washington Post examines the experiences and attitudes of frontline healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic. This report highlights findings from the survey related to vaccine intentions among frontline healthcare workers and the toll of the coronavirus pandemic on healthcare workers.
This guide shares ideas and strategies for acknowledging grief in long-term care settings.
This document provides guidance on utilizing hospice services in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this communications guide, Ann Christiano and Jack Barry from the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida share 8 Principles of COVID-19 Vaccine Communications.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in carrying out effective hand hygiene.
This guide consolidates COVID-19 guidance for human resources for health managers and policy-makers at national, subnational and facility levels to design, manage and preserve the workforce necessary to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and maintain essential health services.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This tip sheet discusses the purpose, importance, and foundational practices of the huddle.
This tool provides guidance for implementing a daily huddle.
This resource provides nursing home leadership with important factors to consider when developing and implementing a staff vaccination program.
This Interim Final Rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes Long-Term Care (LTC) facility testing requirements for staff and residents. Specifically, facilities are required to test residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers, for COVID-19 based on parameters set forth by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. This memorandum provides guidance for facilities to meet the new requirements.
This guide assists nursing home facility leadership with having effective one-on-one conversations with staff on vaccines and delivering a standardized curriculum to help raise staff awareness of accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines.