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Provider group ‘disappointed’ in CMS’ response following release of nursing home commission report

September 21, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s response to a highly anticipated report by the Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes has been disappointing for one long-term care provider advocacy group . The 186-page...

Flu Shot Mandates for Nursing Home Staff Urged as Covid Persists

August 25, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The potentially deadly confluence of a raging Covid-19 pandemic and the upcoming flu season is prompting growing calls for states to require influenza vaccinations for all nursing home health-care personnel. The nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes...

CMS Rule Requires Nursing Home Staff to be Tested for COVID-19

August 26, 2020
AMDA in the News
Medpage Today
COVID-19
WASHINGTON -- An interim final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that requires all Medicare-certified nursing homes test their staff for COVID-19 is drawing mixed reviews from the homes. "The pandemic has already cost...

Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests

August 9, 2020
AMDA in the News
Politico
COVID-19
The Trump administration is gambling that a new generation of fast, cheap coronavirus tests can bring the U.S. outbreak under control. The challenge now is getting enough of these tests to pursue that strategy. The rapid antigen tests, which hunt...

New York Providers Offer COVID-19 Lessons on Resident Care

August 1, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
COVID-19
​A recent report in JAMDA offers new expert consensus recommendations for managing COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a focus on addressing screening of residents and staff, management of COVID-19 positive and presumed positive cases...

Error Rates on Rapid Covid-19 Tests Put Nursing Homes on Edge

July 27, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The new rapid Covid-19 antigen tests being sent to thousands of U.S. nursing homes in high-infection areas have a troubling flaw: They provide false negative results for about 15% of infected people. As nursing home infections climb once again due...

Expert Guidance on Managing COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Facilities Released

July 23, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
An article in the July issue of JAMDA details new expert consensus recommendations for managing COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Specifically, the document addresses screening of residents and staff, management of COVID-19 positive and...

How to solve the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care? Reform the system for one, AMDA advises

July 20, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
To improve the coronavirus problem in nursing homes, federal policy must be proactive, not reactive, and supportive, not punitive. So say managing physicians in nursing facilities. In “Solving the COVID-19 Crisis in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care,” a...

Assisted living should be included in solution to COVID-19 crisis in long-term care

July 21, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
For all of its tragic outcomes, COVID-19 “presents an opportunity to do things differently and looking more systematically at large-scale solutions to care for older adults,” Christopher Laxton, executive director of AMDA – The Society for Post-...

State Actions, Lack of Collaboration During COVID-19 Peaks ‘Threw Nursing Homes into Chaos’

July 16, 2020
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
COVID-19
In calling for a complete overhaul of the way the government and society view long-term and post-acute care, a prominent group of geriatricians argued that the fractured response to COVID-19 in nursing homes may have caused more harm than good in...