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CDI Leaders Reveal Top Key Performance Indicators

This report will offer useful insight into how you can start optimizing your KPIs to track and measure meaningful improvements.

Home Health

First diagnostic test with home collection option for COVID-19 authorized by FDA

The first diagnostic test with a home collection option for COVID-19 has been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA reissued the emergency use authorization (EUA), allowing the Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) COVID-19 RT-PCT Test to enable testing of samples self-collected by patients at home, according to an FDA news …

Skilled Nursing Facility

FEMA sending PPE to SNFs

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is preparing to send personal protective equipment to SNFs. CNN reports that a FEMA spokesperson told the news organization that they are preparing to coordinate shipments of PPE, like surgical masks, gowns and gloves, to nursing homes across the nation. However, LeadingAge has called out the promise as insufficient. …

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Home Health

Breaking: CMS delays OASIS-E due to COVID-19

CMS delayed the implementation of OASIS-E, originally schedule to take effect Jan. 1, 2021, to provide flexibilities for agencies to respond to the public health threats stemming from COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), according to an interim final rule dated April 28. Agencies will be required to use OASIS-E beginning with discharges and transfers on …

Skilled Nursing Facility

CMS announces independent commission to address LTC safety and quality

CMS announced a new independent commission that will address safety and quality concerns in LTC facilities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “CMS has repeatedly taken early unprecedented, aggressive and decisive action to protect nursing home residents during this pandemic. And today, we are taking it one step further by asking that an independent Commission provide recommendations …

PPS Alert for Long-Term Care

Reducing COVID-19 anxiety in SNFs

The staff at SNFs are currently on the front lines doing the vital work of battling COVID-19. Staff, residents, and family members have many fears about COVID-19, but there are many steps that SNFs can take to reduce these anxieties.