Nursing Home Staff

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) on Wednesday disclosed a new IP Staffing Calculator that  aims to help infection prevention and control specialists gauge...

Nursing home turnover linked to poor health, safety … Mupirocin can combat Staph in critically ill people … Intervention lowers catheter-linked UTIs at hospital … Healthcare workers use EHRs differently...

“Four more years” is the kind of boisterous campaign chant that punctuates the end of political rallies, with riled up fans going hoarse with the idea of sustained success. But the American Health...

CNA candidates “giving up” as exam openings fail to keep pace with worker demand … Feds estimate 91% of all nursing home staff received required COVID-19 vaccine … … Low rate of test result...

Residents are more likely to be restrained in nursing homes where staff members report inappropriate use of these tools, a new study finds.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to adopt a new quality tracker to keep tabs on influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel in skilled nursing facilities. 

OIG adds audits of nursing home staff vaccination status to its schedule … Repeat COVID-19 hospitalization unlikely with vaccination or prior infection, Mayo Clinic finds … Fauci does not expect to...

Deaths from COVID-19 among nursing home workers neared an all time high last week, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living. 

A people-oriented work environment with tangible staff supports is key to minimizing turnover and care disruptions in nursing homes. It’s even more important than compensation, direct care providers...

Estimates reveal that if a large sample of U.S. nursing homes had averaged 83% staff vaccination coverage this summer, at least 700 fewer residents would have died from COVID-19 over a two-month period.