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03/16/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | March 16
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- CMS: Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency related to Long-Term Care (LTC) Facility Testing Requirements
- Project Firstline Promotional Toolkit
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Mortality, Health Care Use, and Costs of Clostridioides difficile Infections in Older Adults
- JAMDA: Characterizing Standardized Functional Data at Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
- JAMDA: The Prevalence of Frailty Among Older Adults Living With Dementia: A Systematic Review
- Time from Exposure to Diagnosis among Quarantined Close Contacts of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Index Case-Patients, South Korea
- Trends in Diet Quality Among Older US Adults From 2001 to 2018
- Causal evidence for the multiple demand network in change detection: auditory mismatch magnetoencephalography across focal neurodegenerative diseases.
- Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study
Research Reports/White Papers
News/News Analysis
- CMS in ‘Full Court Sprint’ to Carry Out Biden’s Nursing Home Reforms
- Ease ‘churning and burning’ of staff with these strategies, experts tell LTC crowd
- Nursing Home Staffing Shortage is a ‘Crisis on Top of a Crisis’
- View From the Trenches: Interview with Dr. Leslie Eber
- Staffing shortages tops this year’s list of safety concerns: ECRI
- Almost $50 million in COVID-19 aid headed to Georgia assisted living communities
- Driven by pandemic lessons, CDC advisers mull endorsing high-dose flu vaccines for seniors
- No Innovation Without Compensation: SNFs Need Federal Support to Realize Biden’s Private Room Plans
- Slow booster rollout could be stunting uptake at nursing homes
- 6 years after mandate, most of state’s nursing home residents had POLST forms