Courtney Harold Van Houtven and Walter D. Dawson The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on home health provided through the Medicare program has received little attention compared… Read More »Medicare and Home Health: Taking Stock in the COVID-19 Era (Commonwealth Fund, US)
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Nathan A. Boucher, Walter D. Dawson 24 April 2020 This posts summarises key challenges in the long-term care policy responses to… Read More »Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Long-Term Care in the United States
Michael Lepore, PhD Vice President, LiveWell Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University 11th April 2020 COVID-19 cases have… Read More »Going Public? Reporting of COVID-19 Cases in Long-Term Care Settings
McMichael TM, Currie DW et al (2020) Epidmiology of Covid-19 in a Long-Term Care Facility in King County, Washington. N Engl J Med https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2005412 The… Read More »Article Summary: Epidemiology of COVID-19 in a Long-Term Facility in King Country, Washington
by Time Peck Tim Peck is an emergency medicine physician who is also a founder and CEO of a former health technology company focused on… Read More »Accelerating telemedicine access for Medicare recipients (QUARTZ, United States)
by Anne Montomery and Sarah Slocum Anne Montomery and Sarah Slocum are co-directors of Altarum’s program to improve eldercare. In addition to infection control, they suggest… Read More »Three priorities to protect and care for nursing home residents (McKnight’s Long Term Care News, United States)
Hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) provides regular calls/webinars related to public health emergencies, and… Read More »Webinar: COVID-19 Information for Long-term Care Facilities (COCA, CDC, United States)
By Annette Bauer, CPEC LSE Palliative care has an important role to play in the response to Covid-19, in order to ensure that people who… Read More »COVID19: Providing palliative care for the many
Adelina Comas-Herrera (CPEC) There is a growing number of examples of “strike teams” or “rapid response teams” being sent to care homes that become overwhelmed,… Read More »Tackling COVID-19 outbreaks and staff shortages in care homes: deploying rapid response teams
Summary of a Morbidity and Mortality report by Kimball et al (see citation and link below). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US) tested… Read More »Article summary: symptom-based screening in Skilled Nursing Facilities could fail to identify half of residents with COVID19
