According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 70% of patients in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings are treated with one or more courses of antibiotics each year. Unfortunately, between 40% and 70% of these...
Recently, three cases of Legionnaires’ disease were reported in three separate nursing centers in my geographic area, the state of New York. Because this was the first time I had seen this occur during my many years of working in long-term care, I...
An antibiogram, also referred to as a cumulative susceptibility report, is generated based on information from your facility or a collaboration of multiple facilities (J Am Med Dir Assoc 2018;19:744–747; Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute, “QG...
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...
