Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Under the direction of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, FEMA will coordinate two shipments totaling a 14-day supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) to more than 15,000 nursing homes across the Nation. The mission will supplement existing efforts to ensure nursing homes across the…… Continue reading PPE Packages for Nursing Homes (FEMA)
Category: COVID-19
COVID-19 Updated Guidance and Information
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare I hope everyone is well and staying safe! Today, I’m providing another digest of what’s new or changed with COVID-19 information and guidance over the past few days. CDC – Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Persons for COVID-19 This webpage…… Continue reading COVID-19 Updated Guidance and Information
NHSN LTCF Office Hours Scheduled for This Week and Next
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare I know it’s a hectic time for you and your colleagues these days! In case you missed it, all Medicare certified SNF/LTC facilities are required to start submitting COVID-19 data to CMS via the NHSN portal beginning this Friday, May 8th. This blog will help…… Continue reading NHSN LTCF Office Hours Scheduled for This Week and Next
Will dogs once again prove to be man’s best friend during the COVID-19 public health emergency?
Sharon Hamilton MS, RN, CFDS Clinical Consultant, Briggs Healthcare The next time you look down at that cold wet nose think about this, dogs have up to 300 million sensory receptors in their nose compared to about six million in a human nose. That means they can analyze scents approximately 40 times greater than a…… Continue reading Will dogs once again prove to be man’s best friend during the COVID-19 public health emergency?
COVID-19 Reporting Requires NHSN Enrollment Now
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you’ve been following recent Interim Final Rule blogs, you know that beginning Friday, May 8, 2020 all Medicare-certified LTC facilities (SNFs and NFs) must begin reporting COVID-19 data through the NHSN (National Healthcare Safety Network – CDC) at least weekly. The LTCF COVID-19 Module…… Continue reading COVID-19 Reporting Requires NHSN Enrollment Now
CMS COVID-19 Stakeholder Engagement Calls – Week of 5/04/20A
Don’t miss your opportunity to hear the information you need to know now! Sharon Hamilton MS, RN, CFDS Clinical Consultant, Briggs Healthcare CMS hosts varied recurring stakeholder engagement sessions to share information related to the agency’s response to COVID-19. These sessions are open to members of the healthcare community and are intended to provide…… Continue reading CMS COVID-19 Stakeholder Engagement Calls – Week of 5/04/20A
Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Delay of Certain Reporting Requirements for the SNF QRP
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Last Friday, May 1, 2020, I posted a brief blog on the second Interim Final Rule issued by CMS. CMS-5531-IFC at this location is the unpublished PDF version. The official IFC is scheduled for publication on May 8, 2020 in the Federal Register with 292…… Continue reading Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Delay of Certain Reporting Requirements for the SNF QRP
Assisted Living: Have You Seen This Letter from Congress? Response Needed Before May 8, 2020
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Last week, 3 members of Congress – Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Aging Committees; Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform…… Continue reading Assisted Living: Have You Seen This Letter from Congress? Response Needed Before May 8, 2020
Independent Commission to Address Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On April 30, 2020, “CMS announced a new independent Commission that will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the nursing home response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Commission will provide independent recommendations to the contractor to review and report to CMS to help…… Continue reading Independent Commission to Address Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes
Upcoming NHSN Webinars on the LTCF COVID-19 Module for Reporting
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you’ve been following this week’s COVID-19 reporting module and the Interim Final Rule blogs, you’ve heard about the National Healthcare Safety Network and the requirement to report COVID-19 infections for residents and staff, etc. You may have even tried to log in to yesterday…… Continue reading Upcoming NHSN Webinars on the LTCF COVID-19 Module for Reporting
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