Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare This 51-page report with the same title as this blog, was released on February 18, 2021.  I offer these excerpted statements from the CMA Press Release as well as the Executive Summary of the report: The report “explores facilities’ responses to the coronavirus crisis and examines…… Continue reading Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Unavoidable Pressure Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Position Paper from the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel was posted this week by NPIAP (National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel; previously known as NPUAP – U for ulcer). The purposes of this National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) Position…… Continue reading Unavoidable Pressure Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the investigational monoclonal antibody therapy, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, administered together, for the treatment of mild to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients with positive COVID-19 test results who are at high risk for…… Continue reading Steps to Ensure Medicare Beneficiaries Have Wide Access to COVID-19 Antibody Treatment

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has just posted the latest NH COVID-19 data as of February 7, 2021. You can dig deeper into any of these charts here. CDC is showing this data as of 1:35pm (ET) February 17, 2021:

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Attorney General James Releases Report on Nursing Homes’ Response to COVID-19 was released in late January 2021. The controversy generated by this report continues to this date. “Since March (2020), Attorney General James has been investigating nursing homes throughout New York state based on allegations of…… Continue reading Attorney General Releases Report on NY Nursing Homes’ Response to COVID-19

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Just a few minutes ago, CMS posted the latest county COVID-19 positivity data – February 16, 2021.  This posting usually occurs on Monday mornings but yesterday was a Federal holiday (Presidents Day), thus the delay in posting. As always, archived data is found here; regulations pertinent…… Continue reading CMS Posts County COVID-19 Positivity – February 16, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare You may have heard that the Biden Administration and CDC have posted the Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Mitigation.  This was posted on Friday, February 12, 2021.   I’m blogging on this because many of the healthcare workers in acute as well as post-acute care…… Continue reading Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Mitigation

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Criteria for Return to work for Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Interim Guidance) was updated February 14, 2021: As of February 14, 2021 Changes to more closely align guidance with updates to the Decision Memo: For HCP who are severely immunocompromised, could remain infectious more than 20…… Continue reading Recent CDC COVID-19 Updates: February 13 & 14, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare COVID-19 Vaccine Mini-Toolkit is a great resource for information pertinent to the administration of the vaccine to LTC residents, their families and staff.  It includes links to CDC resources as well as TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization Resources.  I encourage you to check it out!

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CDC updates on COVID-19 information keep coming!  Here are 3 updates posted Thursday, February 11, 2021. When You Can be Around Others After You Had or Likely Had COVID-19 provides updated guidance on several scenarios: I think or know I had COVID-19, and I had symptomsI…… Continue reading Additional CDC Updates on COVID-19 … February 8 and 11, 2021