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 webpage provides answers to some commonly asked questions regarding COVID-19 vaccination.
This document provides guidance on utilizing hospice services in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in carrying out effective hand hygiene.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This information is for hospital staff to use when discharging a patient to a nursing home.
This form is to be used by nursing home staff prior to patient transfer to the hospital.
This poster provides step-by-step instructions for healthcare workers on how to make a 0.1% chlorine mixture for disinfection.
Clinical leaders can use this tool to assess infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in nursing homes with an active outbreak of COVID-19.
These stories from long term care facilities focus on key takeaways from implementing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infection prevention guidelines.
The American Health Care Association Infection Preventionist Specialized Training is a specialized course of study for healthcare professionals who desire to serve as infection preventionists. Through this program, individuals will be specially trained to effectively implement and manage an Infection Prevention and Control Program in a nursing center.
This video explains key concepts in preventing the spread of COVID 19, including what healthcare staff, vendors, and consultants should do to protect residents.
This infection prevention and control course for long-term care facilities consists of four training modules that address infection prevention and control measures to support long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19.
This document provides answers and visual guides to Frequently Asked Questions concerning the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 Point of Care (POC) Test Result Reporting Tool.
This module describes how infection prevention and control program activities can be integrated into an existing Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program.
This presentation on National Healthcare Safety Network reporting describes commonly observed reporting errors in COVID-19 counts data; provides examples of best practices in reporting COVID-19 counts in the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module to improve data accuracy; and describes how to correct reporting errors in the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module.
This video introduces a new COVID-19 response module for long-term care facilities as part of the National Healthcare Safety Network's Long-term Care Facility component.
This module contains enrollment refresher information about the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-term Care Facility Component.
This presentation provides an overview of the National Healthcare Safety Network's new COVID-19 module for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF); this module is part of the National Healthcare Safety Network's Long-term Care Facility Component.
This presentation provides guidance to long-term care facilities that are enrolling in the National Healthcare Safety Network on how to enter their targeted data elements to be used for COVID-19 emergency response activities.
This document presents information about the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (CDC/HICPAC) Guidelines for Isolation Precautions Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings.
This information is for nursing home staff use when receiving an admission or return from hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This updated infection control assessment and response tool is a longer but more comprehensive assessment of infection control practices within nursing homes. The facilitator guide format contains a side-by-side layout of both the question and answer choices as well as the recommended infection prevention and control practice(s) based upon current CDC guidance.
This podcast is the first in a series of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-sponsored podcasts for frontline nursing home staff, and discusses training and infection control practices in nursing homes to help combat the spread of COVID-19.
This webpage provides additional information about Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 exposure standards and requirements, including requirements in states that operate their own OSHA-approved State plans; recordkeeping requirements and injury/illness recording criteria; and applications of standards related to sanitation and communication of risks related to hazardous chemicals that may be in common sanitizers and sterilizers.