The effects of many vaccines can wear off over time. For best protection, it is important to stay up to date with vaccines that protect against infectious respiratory diseases during the fall season.

Nursing homes can use this autumn crossword puzzle to promote respiratory illness awareness and prevention.

This fall-themed word search game for nursing homes includes tips for staying healthy.

Moving Needles is a five-year cooperative agreement between PALTmed (Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association, formerly known as AMDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They provide strategies and ideas for evidence-based quality improvement projects to improve immunization rates in nursing homes.

Getting all vaccines will help protect you from severe symptoms so you can enjoy more time with important people in your life.

Readmissions linked to sepsis are common and costly. Listen to this May 16, 2024, webinar recording to hear from TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization specialists who discuss key prevention and early detection strategies associated with pneumonia diagnoses.

This tool can be useful in approaching discussions about vaccinations such as COVID-19, flu, pneumonia, etc.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) created this toolkit to help long-term care providers encourage and facilitate vaccinations among their residents and staff.

In this Sept. 12, 2023, recording, TMF Quality Innovation Network–Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) specialists discuss the importance of the updated COVID-19 vaccine, routine vaccinations for older adults this season and our new immunization resources toolkit.

Nursing facilities can use these flu, pneumonia, COVID-19 and RSV immunization resources for staff, residents and family.

Use this form to keep nursing facility staff up to date with current immunizations recommendations, maintain complete, up-to-date resident records, and maintain and protect your vaccine supplies.

This free, interactive, web-based immunization course includes the latest guidelines and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Each training module provides learning opportunities for vaccine-preventable diseases and recommended vaccine use. The fifteenth module discusses pneumococcal disease and its related vaccine.

Vaccinating Adults: A Step-by-Step Guide provides 142 pages of practical information in an easy-to-use format to help you implement or enhance adult immunization services in your health care setting. The guide also includes an abundance of web addresses and references to assist you in staying up-to-date with the most current information. Developed by staff at the Immunization Action Coalition, the Guide had several early reviews for technical accuracy by subject matter experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Vaccine Program Office.

This toolkit includes pneumonia vaccine resources for nursing home team members as well as residents and their families.

Give this resource to patients with pneumonia to learn when to call the doctor or visit an emergency room.

Nursing facility leadership are encouraged to use this document to review strategies to use to encourage their nursing staff and residents to receive the flu, pneumococcal and COVID-19 vaccines.

Use this form in Spanish for Puerto Rico to keep nursing facility staff up to date with current immunizations recommendations, maintain complete, up-to-date resident records, and maintain and protect your vaccine supplies.

Nursing facility leadership are encouraged to use this document to review strategies to use to encourage their nursing staff and residents to receive the flu, pneumococcal and COVID-19 vaccines.

Use this form in U.S. Spanish to keep nursing facility staff up to date with current immunizations recommendations, maintain complete, up-to-date resident records, and maintain and protect your vaccine supplies.

Give this resource to patients with pneumonia to learn when to call the doctor or visit an emergency room.