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Without Funding and Resources, CMS’s New Nursing Home Testing Guidance ‘Hollow’

May 20, 2020
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
COVID-19
Without the funds and the resources needed to meet COVID-19 testing recommendations, the federal government’s guidance on reopening nursing homes could create more confusion for skilled nursing facilities — and more challenges on top of the...

AMDA: Address key questions to reap benefits of universal COVID-19 testing

May 20, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is urging eldercare facility operators and health officials to jointly address the clinical complexities of facility-wide COVID-19 testing before implementing state testing mandates. In a policy...

U.S. Offers Guide for Reopening Nursing Homes

May 19, 2020
AMDA in the News
Wall Street Journal
COVID-19
Federal health regulators released guidelines for reopening nursing homes in the U.S., proposing steps that eventually could allow visitors to return to facilities that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. The recommendations from the...

Providers facing ‘financial turmoil’ from coronavirus; universal testing requires funding, organization says

May 19, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
The coronavirus crisis could lead to “financial turmoil” for many nursing home and senior living operators thanks to a combination of higher costs — for things like supplies and increased pay for workers — and the inability to create additional...

Assisted living communities left out of state COVID-19 testing, data initiatives

May 19, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
Associations representing assisted living operators are calling attention to the fact that in some states, assisted living communities are being left out of testing and data initiatives. At the national level, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and...

AMDA: COVID-19 Universal Testing Mandates Must Include Funding for Costs, Staffing Testing decisions should be part of an individual facility strategy

May 18, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
Columbia, MD – Many states are issuing orders for nursing homes and assisted living communities to conduct universal testing of all staff and/or residents. AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine says these mandates, while well...

Covid-19 Testing Mandates For Assisted Living Raise Questions About Access, Cost

May 18, 2020
AMDA in the News
Senior Housing News
COVID-19
As more states are now mandating that assisted living facilities test either residents, staff or both for Covid-19, providers that have been asking for widespread testing for weeks are now faced with logistical challenges and unanswered questions...

New York Sent Recovering Coronavirus Patients to Nursing Homes: ‘It Was a Fatal Error’

May 14, 2020
AMDA in the News
The Wall Street Journal
COVID-19
In late March, Dottie Hickey got a call from Luxor Nursing & Rehabilitation at Mills Pond, the nursing home where her sister lived. The 79-year-old was being moved to make space for incoming hospital patients recovering from coronavirus. Ms...

Assisted living communities have special considerations in COVID-19 battle, JAMDA authors say

May 13, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
Tackling COVID-19 in assisted living communities presents its own set of challenges compared with other long-term care settings, noted researchers offering guidance in battling the disease in an article in the May issue of JAMDA, The Journal of Post...

Experts Offer Practical Guidelines for COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

May 12, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
For post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) providers, the rise of COVID-19 into a global outbreak has presented a serious crisis. This rapidly developing situation has not only resulted in disproportionately high resident illnesses and deaths from...