CDC Resources for Nursing Home and Long-term Care Facilities

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted interim guidance intended for clinicians who order antigen tests, receive antigen test results, and/or perform point-of-care testing, as well as for laboratory professionals who perform antigen testing in a laboratory setting or at the point of care and report those results.

Register to attend one or all sessions between Aug. 27, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2021, hosted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This training series will include 13 topics that your nursing home partners must know to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. These trainings will be recorded and housed on QIOProgram.org for 24/7 access.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided interim guidance regarding discontinuing transmission-based precautions and discharging hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued an extension of its temporary final rule and modified the types of personal protective equipment that may not leave the United States without explicit approval by FEMA. This rule is open for public comment from Aug. 10 through Dec. 31, 2020.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released updated guidance on when health care personnel who have had or are suspected to have COVID-19 should return to work.

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 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 has updated its guidance for nursing homes. View this webpage for more information.

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.

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 provides this guidance to health care systems and practices regarding the adoption and delivery of teleheath services.

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

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.

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

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

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)

Watch this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention video demonstration to learn how to remove 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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 provides considerations for the public health response to COVID-19 in nursing homes.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 facts about coronavirus (COVID-19) to help stop the spread of rumors.

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

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) released updated recommendations for testing, specimen collection, and reporting patients and reporting positive test results.

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) provides guidance documents, videos and toolkits about COVID-19.

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.