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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...

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...

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...

'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...

As coronavirus death count rises, Florida nursing homes still face testing challenges

April 29, 2020
AMDA in the News
Sun Sentinel
COVID-19
As Florida prepares to reopen its economy, the state’s nursing homes and assisted-living facilities are facing challenges in conducting the widespread testing needed to find and isolate hidden carriers of the disease that can cause deadly outbreaks...

New COVID-19 ‘heat map’ will arm providers in fight for PPE and testing, AMDA says

April 29, 2020
AMDA in the News
Senior Living
COVID-19
Two associations behind a new “heat map” that visually conveys the prevalence of COVID-19 within assisted living communities and nursing homes across the country say it should help providers make the case for more personal protective equipment,...

Provider groups develop heat map to aid coronavirus response; FEMA to deliver PPE

April 29, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
A newly-developed heat map of coronavirus cases in U.S. nursing homes and assisted living facilities will help to prioritize much-needed personal protective equipment and testing supplies for hard-hit providers. Its creation was announced the same...

Nursing Homes Struggling to Get a Handle on COVID-19

April 27, 2020
AMDA in the News
Medpage Today
COVID-19
This is the fourth story in a series by MedPage Today examining the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations. Past stories reported on the homeless , immigrants in detention , and the undocumented . Staff members at the Canterbury Rehabilitation...

Discharging COVID-19 Patients To Nursing Homes Called A 'Recipe For Disaster'

April 20, 2020
AMDA in the News
NPR Public Radio
COVID-19
In some parts of the U.S., the desperate need to slow the spread of the coronavirus is coming into conflict with the scramble to find more hospital beds. Nursing homes have been the sites of some of the earliest — and deadliest — outbreaks of COVID-...

Feds Under Pressure to Publicly Track Nursing Home Outbreaks

April 16, 2020
AMDA in the News
Baltimore Edge Media Network
COVID-19
Federal health officials are coming under increasing pressure to start publicly tracking coronavirus infections and deaths in nursing homes amid criticism they have not been transparent about the scope of outbreaks across the country that have...