CMS Issues Nursing Homes Best Practices Toolkit to Combat COVID-19

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new toolkit developed to aid nursing homes, governors, states, departments of health, and other agencies that provide oversight and assistance to these facilities with additional resources to aid in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic within nursing homes. The toolkit builds upon previous actions taken by CMS to provide a wide range of tools and guidance to states, health care providers, and others during the public health emergency. It is comprised of best practices from a variety of front line health care providers, governors’ COVID-19 task forces, associations and other organizations, and experts, and is intended to serve as a catalogue of resources dedicated to addressing the specific challenges facing nursing homes as they combat COVID-19.