CDC Resources for Nursing Home and Long-term Care Facilities

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed gaps in equitable health coverage and equal access to health care. The solution to attain health equity is to engage all organizations - not just health care organizations and facilities - to work together. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed some guidance for community and faith-based organizations, private employers, public health agencies and state, tribal, local and territorial governments.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has issued updated guidance allowing nursing homes to safely expand visitation options during the COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency.

View these COVID-19 vaccine resources for health care providers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

What do you need to know to get a COVID-19 vaccine? View this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website for answers to your questions about the vaccine, including where to sign up to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information. This list includes information about vaccine storage and handling, vaccine administration, patient education and clinical materials.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed information about what to expect before, during and after you receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

Health care providers who are interested in storing and possibly redistributing COVID-19 vaccines should download, complete and submit this form to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Watch this video from the Ad Council featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci and other leading health care professionals. This video is part of a series developed by the medical and health community for the medical and health community and features physicians and nurses addressing the topics of efficacy and safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines to help inspire better understanding and confidence about the vaccines and encourage health care providers to get vaccinated.

What should you know about the new COVID-19 variants? Learn more from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

View strategies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to optimize personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies in health care settings.

Download this one-page document for links to resources about the COVID-19 vaccines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Effective Jan. 1, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics is implementing new diagnosis codes for COVID-19 into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM).

The new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine webpage has information specific to Pfizer’s vaccine, including resources to assist providers in storing, handling, and administering the vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the new v-safe after vaccination health checker. V-safe webpages feature information on how to register and complete a v-safe health check-in (including step-by-instructions with images), troubleshooting, FAQs and contact information for technical support. These webpages will be continuously updated with additional resources.

Based on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an independent panel of medical and public health experts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends residents of long-term care facilities be included among those offered the first supply of COVID-19 vaccines. To learn more, please visit, Vaccinating Long-Term Care Facility Residents.

Among all study vaccine recipients asked to complete diaries of their symptoms during the seven days after vaccination, 84.7% reported at least one local injection site reaction. By age group, 88.7% in the younger group (aged 18 to 55 years) and 79.7% in the older group (aged >55 years) reported at least one local reaction. To learn more, please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Local Reactions webpage.

Providers participating in the COVID-19 Vaccination Program can find information about the requirements of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccination Provider Agreement at COVID-19 Vaccination Provider Requirements and Support and on the websites listed in the footnotes of the agreement.

While this guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is intended for long-term care facilities, it could also be applied to patients in other health care settings. These considerations are based on the current understanding of signs and symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination, including timing and duration, and might change as experience with the vaccine accumulates.

Strategies are needed for health care facilities to appropriately evaluate and manage post-vaccination signs and symptoms among health care personnel. These considerations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based on the current understanding of signs and symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination, including timing and duration, and might change as experience with the vaccine accumulates.

Anaphylaxis is an acute and potentially life-threatening serious allergic reaction. These clinical considerations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide information on preparing for the initial assessment and management of anaphylaxis following COVID-19 vaccination.

Making sure residents in long-term care facilities can receive COVID-19 vaccinations as soon as vaccines are available will help save the lives of those who are most at risk of dying from COVID-19. To learn more, please visit frequently asked questions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed clinical resources for each COVID-19 vaccine.

Bryan Health developed this poster showing the levels of risk for the spread of COVID-19 with and without a mask. Download the PDF and share this important information with your team and residents.

The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention has posted training and education materials for health care professionals to access to help with the storage and administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.

View this information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to understand the recommendations for preparing to transport or receive a patient or resident with a confirmed or possible case of COVID-19.

When can you be around others if you have or think you might have COVID-19? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shares helpful tips to answer this question.

Health care systems typically have uneven distribution of COVID-19 cases, with some regions’ health care systems experiencing patient surges while others have excess capacity for patient care. This guidance is for state and local emergency medical planners and all health care facilities, especially facilities in rural areas. The guidance outlines considerations around the transfer of patients, staff, and supplies between health care facilities to optimize patient care, balance resources, and minimize use of crisis care standards.

Planning and preparing for hurricanes and other natural disasters can be stressful, even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new website, Natural Disasters, Severe Weather, and COVID-19, that includes information on preparedness and recovery during the COVID-19 response and what the general public can do to keep themselves safe.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created this animated video with tips for what to do when visiting friends and family who are at higher risk for severe illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists online training opportunities for health care professionals related to COVID-19, infection prevention, emergency preparedness and other topics.

Catch up on the latest findings about COVID-19 and other infections and diseases by listening to podcasts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for nursing homes. View this webpage for more information.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports repeated laboratory testing combined with infection prevention control interventions likely contributed to decreases in COVID-19 spread in 26 Detroit skilled nursing facilities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention frequently asked questions have been updated based on feedback from frontline professionals to assist health care personnel and facilities in preventing transmission of COVID-19 in health care settings.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the nursing home testing guidelines to include testing the same individual more than once in a 24-hour period and to encourage consideration for testing symptomatic residents for other causes of respiratory illness in addition to SARS-CoV-2.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides this guidance to health care systems and practices regarding the adoption and delivery of teleheath services.

View this webpage from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help estimate the amount of personal protective equipment being used over time.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance about putting on personal protective equipment to help health care providers ensure respirators and eye protection fit properly when worn together. The CDC has also removed a second hand hygiene step from step 6 in How to Put On (Don) PPE Gear.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides updates about COVID-19 on its Q&A webpage.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides interim SARS-CoV-2 Testing Guidelines for Nursing Home Residents and Health Care Personnel.

Reference this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage for guidance on appropriate use of testing for SARS CoV-2.

Watch this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention video demonstration to learn how to remove personal protective equipment. (4 minutes 15 seconds)

Watch this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention video demonstration to get the latest information on how to put on personal protective equipment. (4 minutes 15 seconds)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updates its COVID-19 transmission webpage to clarify information about how the virus spreads.

View this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's webpage for recommendations and considerations for performing facility-wide testing.

Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's long-term care facility COVID-19 Module webpage to answer your questions about enrollment, training opportunities, data collection forms and instructions, staff impact, personal protective equipment and more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides recommendations for when you can begin to be with other people after you likely had or had been ill with COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides general strategies for use in managing workplace fatigue and to work safely.

Visit this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage for learning opportunities related to COVID-19.

Read this report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to learn how a skilled nursing facility stopped a COVID-19 outbreak.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed this Infection Control Assessment and Response tool that offers many uses. The content can also be used by assisted living facilities and health departments.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a framework for delivering non-COVID-19 health care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides guidance for memory care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention long-term care facility COVID-19 module enrollment refresher training video for updated information.

Follow these steps to enroll in the National Healthcare Safety Network to gain access to the COVID-19 Module to report required information.

View this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage for further guidance on the symptoms of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides guidance on the criticality of recognizing what stress looks like, steps to build resilience, manage job stress and know where to go if help is needed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides guidance for health care personnel and first responders to recognize what stress looks like, steps to build resilience and cope with stress, and know where to go if you need help.

Long-term care facilities and nursing homes are encouraged to watch this video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn how to recognize new or worsening COVID-19 infections in residents.

Watch this video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn what staff, vendors and consultants should do and what they should wear to protect residents and keep COVID-19 out of your facility.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides nursing homes and other long-term care settings with steps to assess and improve their preparedness for responding to COVID-19.

Long-term care facilities and nursing homes are encouraged to watch this video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn how and when to clean and disinfect environmental and equipment surfaces to help stop the spread of bacteria and viruses, especially COVID-19.

Long-term care facilities and nursing homes are encouraged to watch this video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn how and when to perform hand hygiene as part of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Watch this video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn what personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, and when and how to use PPE correctly to help protect yourself and residents from COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its frequently asked questions for COVID-19. If a long-term care facility has a resident or staff member with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, how and to whom should this be communicated?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a printable PDF version of these 10 clinical tips.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers guidance for health care facilities.

Visit this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage to view COVID-19 related videos.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides considerations for use of test-based strategies for preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in nursing homes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides considerations for the public health response to COVID-19 in nursing homes.

Visit this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage to learn more about clinical care guidance for health care professionals related to COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released webinars that are intended to be used as a training tool/resource for frontline long-term care staff members.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed updated priorities for testing patients who are suspected to be infected with COVID-19.

The Personal Protective Equipment Burn Rate Calculator is now available as an app.

View this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage to review updates to the symptom-based strategy to discontinue isolation for persons with COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network introduces a new COVID-19 module for long-term care facilities.

Visit this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) webpage for a weekly surveillance summary of U.S. COVID-19 activity.

Read the latest reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's webpage highlights basic principles of contact tracing to stop COVID-19 transmission; detailed guidance for health departments and potential contact tracers is forthcoming.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information regarding the effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated guidance to include key strategies to prepare for COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.

This updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers decisions about return to work for health care personnel with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

This guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been updated to include the recommendation that all U.S. health care facilities put policies into place requiring everyone entering the facility to practice source control, regardless of symptoms.

Update: This interim guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was updated to align with revisions to the public health recommendations for community-related exposure to COVID-19.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new regulatory requirements that will require nursing homes to inform residents, their families and representatives of COVID-19 cases in their facilities. In addition, CMS will require nursing homes to report cases of COVID-19 directly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's webpage to learn about strategies to help cope with stress and anxiety during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency.

View this list of online training sessions for health care professionals related to COVID-19 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Respiratory Surveillance Line List from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a template for data collection and active monitoring of both residents and staff during a suspected respiratory illness cluster or outbreak at a nursing home or other long-term care facility.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) answers frequently asked questions about how to wear a cloth face covering.

This course will provide infection prevention and control (IPC) training for individuals responsible for IPC programs in nursing homes.

On April 16, 2020, the CDC Clinician Outreach and Community Activity (COCA) presented a webinar to provide guidance to death certifiers on proper cause-of-death certification for cases where confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection resulted in death.

Keep up with the important work the Task Force is doing in response to COVID-19.

Get the important information from this April 14, 2020, training webinar presented by CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created this social media toolkit to help localize efforts in responding to the virus that causes COVID-19.

This interim guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pertains to critical infrastructure workers.

On April 3, 2020, CMS Administrator Seema Verma, Deborah Birx, MD, White House Coronavirus Task Force, and officials from the FDA, CDC, and FEMA participated in a call on COVID-19 flexibilities.

This is a 45-second video demonstration from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The report, updated each Friday, summarizes and interprets key indicators, including information related to COVID-19 outpatient visits, emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths, as well as laboratory data.

This April 8, 2020, webinar by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided a COVID-19 update for rural health partners.

Answers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about cloth face coverings

This CDC document offers a series of strategies or options to optimize supplies of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators (commonly called “N95 respirators”) in health care settings when there is limited supply.

Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to plan, prepare and respond to COVID-19.

Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to wear a cloth face covering

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) compiled the best practices and lessons learned that communities have already faced fighting COVID-19

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are issuing new recommendations to state and local governments and long-term care facilities (also known as nursing homes) to help mitigate the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Ensemble Health Partners provides the latest coding updates due to COVID-19.

Here are some everyday steps, steps when someone is sick, and considerations for employers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Transcripts and audio recordings of the CDC's public service announcements can be found here.

Here are the CDC's public health communication options at U.S. ports of entry.

Here are the latest CDC updates for face coverings, care plans, persons with disabilities, managing anxiety and stress, and more.

Follow these steps from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Here are the latest COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Here is a list of the latest COVID-19 tools from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Burn Rate Calculator is a spreadsheet-based model that helps health care facilities plan and optimize the use of PPE for response to COVID-19.

During this Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) call, presenters focus on current information about people who are higher risk for COVID-19 complications because of their age or underlying medical conditions, particularly those that are not well-controlled.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides guidelines about COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides facts about coronavirus (COVID-19) to help stop the spread of rumors.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), surge capacity is a useful framework to approach a decreased supply of PPE during the COVID-19 response.

Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities can use this checklist to assess and improve their preparedness for responding to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training course is designed for individuals responsible for infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in nursing homes. The course includes IPC resources.

What you need to know from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

What you need to know from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides guidance documents, videos and toolkits about COVID-19.

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) document offers a series of strategies or options to optimize supplies of disposable N95 filtering face piece respirators (commonly called “N95 respirators”) in health care settings when there is limited supply.

This interim CDC guidance is intended to assist with assessment of risk and application of work restrictions for asymptomatic health care personnel (HCP) with potential exposure to patients, visitors, or other HCP with confirmed COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for testing, specimen collection, and reporting patients and reporting positive test results.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides guidance documents, videos and toolkits about COVID-19.

This CDC video answers important questions about hand washing and hand sanitizer.