Our goal is to leverage the foundation of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory to establish IMPACT-COVID-19 (IMPACT-C), which will be dedicated to developing and evaluating SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies among highly vulnerable skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents and workers. The organizational, administrative, and expertise components for IMPACT-C will include: leadership, regulatory structures, dissemination, and investigators. We will leverage IMPACT Collaboratory’s Data Sharing Collaborative that includes 11 national companies with >1,000 SNFs. We have established the infrastructure to securely and regularly receive daily EMR and COVID-19 data from this consortium and link it to Medicare claims and Minimum Data Set assessments. Using this rich and representative database, we will conduct a series of models to inform policies on SARS-CoV-2 testing and to forecast outbreaks. We have additionally designed a cluster RCT of 120-150 facilities to compare the effect of novel, point-of-care testing versus usual care on the rate of COVID-19 infections. Data will be shared with the RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection Center.

Starting early 2021