Gregory Gahm, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Vivage Senior Living in Colorado, offers some tips on dealing with a quarantine or isolation from an influenza outbreak.
Imagine two women are admitted to your facility. They have similar diagnoses, and they both seem generally happy and alert. However, just as two people who have similar possessions, homes, and jobs may have very different credit scores, these two...
Infections are one of the leading causes of death and hospitalization for residents in post-acute and long-term care settings. With the aging population, increasing complexity of care and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, infection...
Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) do not discriminate—they spread in all health care settings. From our unique vantage point at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we are witnessing the emergence of novel MDROs across the...
In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated a requirement that nursing homes have an antibiotic stewardship program.1 As part of this requirement, nursing homes must track antibiotic use as well as monitor and...
Nursing homes (NHs) are an important target for antibiotic stewardship (AS). We describe a collaborative model to reduce Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) in NHs through optimization of antibiotic use including a reduction in high-risk...
