This article features answers to common questions on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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.
Find information and resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help long-term care providers when coordinating access to COVID-19 vaccines on-site or in the local community.
This brief video from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) highlights long-term care staff who moved from being initially uncertain about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to accepting it and encouraging their peers to do the same.
This flyer provides messaging to encourage long term care staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
This module provides an overview of injection safety, along with a review of recommended practices and the consequences of failure to follow safe injection practices.
On this website, long-term care facilities can track weekly COVID-19 vaccination data for healthcare personnels and residents.
This webpage provides information on on reporting options, data collection forms, form instructions, archived and upcoming trainings on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) COVID-19 Module.
This page displays data at the national and state level on COVID-19 vaccination coverage among residents and staff of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-certified nursing homes. These summaries represent data that nursing homes reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Module using weekly vaccination forms.
This course provides infection prevention and control training for individuals responsible for infection prevention and control programs in nursing homes so they can effectively implement their programs and ensure adherence to recommended practices by front-line staff.
This flyer highlights strategies long-term care staff and leadership to consider when interacting with residents to support positive outcomes for both staff and residents.
This webpage provides an overview of the causes and frequency of post-COVID conditions for healthcare providers.
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams minimize infection risk in their facility.
This post-vaccination guidance is intended for long-term care facilities, but it could also be applied to patients in other healthcare settings. These considerations are based on the current understanding of signs and symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination, including timing and duration, and might change as experience with the vaccine accumulates.
This webinar will walk you through how to get ready and promote high vaccination rates in your facility.
This is a checklist of questions for potential COVID-19 vaccine recipients with guidance on how to proceed with administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.
This 30-minute course reviews best practices for effective COVID-19 vaccine administration and addresses recent COVID-19 recommendations presented by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This webpage provides COVID-19 data for various populations and guidance on how to slow the spread.
This flyer reinforces the importance of following safety guidelines to stop the spread of COVID-19.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This document provides guidance that builds upon CDC’s post-vaccine consideration for healthcare workers.
Information about the COVID-19 vaccines authorized or approved for use in the United States.
This fact sheet provides information on the possible symptoms of COVID-19.
This organized curriculum and step-by-step facilitator guide presents fact-based information in a 10-minute module format to nursing home staff on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.