Tag: Nursing Homes / Elder Care

There were 101 Candida auris cases at a nursing home and 22 cases at hospitals from January to April

Conventional measures of staff quality, including direct care staff-to-resident ratio did not predict COVID-19 cases, deaths

New report includes data from early in 2020, making it the most comprehensive to date from the government

Risk for PCR-positive infection higher for residents, staff of long-term care facilities who were antibody-negative at baseline

Officials hope requirement will be an incentive for these facilities to keep giving shots even as the pandemic wanes

22 infections identified among 12 residents and 10 staff members at 15 skilled nursing facilities; no facility-associated secondary transmission reported

Compared with Jan. to Feb. 2020, prescriptions for antipsychotics, antidepressants, trazodone up from March to Sept. 2020

Estimated effectiveness 63 percent for period from more than 14 days after the first dose through seven days after the second dose

Lawsuit claims nursing home company submitted false information to the ratings program

Adjusted mortality rates significantly declined from high of 20.9 percent in early April to 11.2 percent in early November