Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare NHSN has updated the following reporting resources for long-term care facilities late last week: Resident Impact and Facility Capacity COVID-19 Resident Impact and Facility Capacity Pathway Form (print-only) – February 4, 2021Table of Instructions – February 4, 2021 Importing Data Resources Facility Level CSV File Templates for Surveillance Reporting…… Continue reading NHSN COVID-19 LTCF Reporting Module: Multiple Updates

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you weren’t able to attend this Telligen webinar earlier this week, you missed an excellent presentation.  I attended and highly recommend it!  You can still view and share it with others. The link to the recording is here.   The presentation slides are found here.   Dr.…… Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccine: Reasons Not to Be Afraid (On-Demand Telligen Webinar)

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published and posted Necessity of 2 Doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines on February 3, 2021.  It’s an interesting read that will help answer the questions many of us have regarding 2 doses of these initial…… Continue reading Necessity of 2 Doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS updated this document on Monday, February 1, 2021.  Here’s the most recent addition/revision to this document: Coverage for Monoclonal Antibody TherapiesCoding and PaymentEnrollmentEnforcement DiscretionAdditional Resources (includes link to below infographic) This 12-page document contains many other pieces of information pertinent to SNF and LTC facilities. …… Continue reading CMS Flexibilities to Fight COVID-19 – SNF/LTC Facilities: Coverage for Monoclonal Antibody Therapies

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending January 24, 2021. Below is the current vaccination data available on CDC COVID Data Tracker. 

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine – issued a statement on February 1st that addresses the administration of COVID-19 vaccine to all eligible and willing residents and healthcare workers in post-acute and LTC facilities. “To support equity and efficiency in COVID-19 vaccine…… Continue reading AMDA Statement on COVID-19 Vaccinations for Residents and PAC/LTC Staff

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted Version 18 of this toolkit on February 3, 2021.  In case I haven’t mentioned this before, this toolkit has been updated twice each month and the latest version is always found beneath the hyperlink I provided above. A refresher of what’s provided in this…… Continue reading CMS Posts Updated Toolkit on State Actions to Mitigate COVID-19 Prevalence: Version 18

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare HHS Amends PREP Act Declaration to Increase Workforce Authorized to Administer COVID-19 Vaccines was issued January 28, 2021. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a fifth amendment to the Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) to…… Continue reading CDC/CMS/HHS/OSHA COVID-19 Updated Information – Last Week of January 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the COVID-19 county positivity data as of February 1, 2021. As a reminder, information regarding the requirement to test nursing home staff based on county positivity is found here.  Previous data reports are found in the archive.  

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the most recent nursing home COVID-19 data: Week Ending January 17, 2021. Today and going forward, I’m also including information from another resource – CDC.  This data and more can be found on the CDC COVID Data Tracker which looks at the past…… Continue reading CMS Posts Nursing Home COVID-19 Data for Week Ending January 17, 2021 CDC COVID-19 Data Also Available