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Covid-19 Testing Mandates For Assisted Living Raise Questions About Access, Cost

May 18, 2020
AMDA in the News
Senior Housing News
COVID-19
As more states are now mandating that assisted living facilities test either residents, staff or both for Covid-19, providers that have been asking for widespread testing for weeks are now faced with logistical challenges and unanswered questions...

New York Sent Recovering Coronavirus Patients to Nursing Homes: ‘It Was a Fatal Error’

May 14, 2020
AMDA in the News
The Wall Street Journal
COVID-19
In late March, Dottie Hickey got a call from Luxor Nursing & Rehabilitation at Mills Pond, the nursing home where her sister lived. The 79-year-old was being moved to make space for incoming hospital patients recovering from coronavirus. Ms...

Assisted living communities have special considerations in COVID-19 battle, JAMDA authors say

May 13, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
Tackling COVID-19 in assisted living communities presents its own set of challenges compared with other long-term care settings, noted researchers offering guidance in battling the disease in an article in the May issue of JAMDA, The Journal of Post...

Experts Offer Practical Guidelines for COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

May 12, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
For post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) providers, the rise of COVID-19 into a global outbreak has presented a serious crisis. This rapidly developing situation has not only resulted in disproportionately high resident illnesses and deaths from...

When will it be safe to visit your mom in a nursing home after coronavirus lockdowns?

May 11, 2020
AMDA in the News
Philidelphia Inquirer
COVID-19
Brenda Flock and Susan Ellis don’t know each other, but the two women, both 62, have been in the same level of coronavirus purgatory since early March. That’s when the senior facilities where their loved ones live stopped allowing visitors. Flock’s...

Care of nursing home residents a major concern if workers go on strike amid COVID-19 pandemic

May 7, 2020
AMDA in the News
Chicago Tribune
COVID-19
When his ailing mother came down with a sore throat and tested positive for the coronavirus, Eric Russell had her transferred from her nursing home in Chicago to a new nursing home in Park Forest. At 77, Claudette Russell has multiple sclerosis and...

AMDA urges clinicians to ensure eldercare facilities are “the last to open”

May 7, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
As states begin to ease coronavirus lockdown rules, the decision to reopen individual eldercare facilities should rest entirely with the clinicians who provide direct resident care, says the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. In a...

LTC Providers Require More Funding, PPE, Tests as States Weigh Reopening Moves

May 6, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
COVID-19
As states weigh how to reopen their economies after locking down to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the long term care profession said skilled nursing and assisted living providers must have additional support in the way of increased funding...

State’s Reopening Decisions for Nursing Homes Must Be Made With Great Caution and on an Individual Basis PALTC facilities should be the last to open to visitors and vendors

May 6, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
Columbia, MD – States and local communities are starting the process of reopening retail stores, restaurants, offices, and other businesses. In light of this, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine says the decision to...

'It makes no sense': Feds consider relaxing infection control in US nursing homes

May 4, 2020
AMDA in the News
USA Today
COVID-19
The federal government is considering rolling back infection control requirements in U.S. nursing homes – even as the long-term-care industry's residents and workers are overwhelmed by the coronavirus. A rule proposed last year by the Centers for...