While attention regarding newly released guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on nursing home testing, visitation, and communal activities has...more
Long-term care providers that have been clamoring for updated guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address the effect of COVID-19...more
With much fanfare earlier this month, mass media outlets touted revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that individuals who have been fully vaccinated can “skip” quarantine if they become...more
As long-term care facilities (“LTCFs”), such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities, implement plans for the immunization of their residents and staff, and as the first shipments of vaccine are being delivered across...more
As expected, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted 13-1 on December 1, 2020 to recommend that health care personnel and long-term care...more
As if protocols in certain states for dealing with nursing home residents returning from holiday leave weren’t complicated enough in terms of corhorting, the impending influenza season and new considerations from the Centers...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) earlier this month issued a series of frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) regarding the point-of-care (“POC”) program to provide certain Medicare and Medicaid certified...more
In recognition that some nursing homes in states that are not experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases are beginning to loosen restrictions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) has quietly updated its...more
In a sure sign that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over at least for nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) published revised guidance for testing...more
After nearly a month without new or updated guidance for nursing homes and assisted living facilities (collectively, “LTCFs”), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), on May 14, released new guidance focused...more