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02/15/2023
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | February 15
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- HHS Fact Sheet: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Transition Roadmap
- CMS: Disclosures of Ownership and Additional Disclosable Parties Information for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities — Proposed Rule
- Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2023
Journal Articles/Preprints
- Early Treatment with Pegylated Interferon Lambda for Covid-19
- JAMDA: Nursing Home-to-Nursing Home Transfers during the Early COVID-19 Pandemic
- Assessment of Quality of Life Among Patients With Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection Treated with Investigational Oral Microbiome Therapeutic SER-109
- Predictors of cognitive functioning trajectories among older Americans: A new investigation covering 20 years of age- and non-age-related cognitive change
- Risk of Discharge to Lower-Quality Nursing Homes Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias
Research Reports/White Paper
- Political leaning influences doctors' beliefs about COVID treatments, study finds
- Microbiome drug for recurrent C diff linked to improved quality of life
- Studies spotlight growing threat of drug-resistant Shigella
News/News Analysis
- Interferon Injection Cuts COVID Hospitalization Risk in Vaxxed Population
- Why the Odds Are Stacked Against a Promising New Covid Drug
- Nursing Homes Struggle to Maximize Value of Infection Preventionists, with Regulatory Scrutiny Increasing
- Skilled Nursing Sector Faces Defining Moment to Shape New Medicaid Models
- Workforce issues a theme of State of the Union address and industry reaction to it
- Era of ‘Free’ Covid Vaccines, Test Kits, and Treatments Is Ending. Who Will Pay the Tab Now?
- Senators push CMS to issue — and fund — federal nursing home staffing mandate soon
- Social pursuits may protect frail seniors from new disabilities: study
- With scope unknown, nursing homes brace for new schizophrenia audits