Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Preparedness Checklist for Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Settings
December 1, 2021: What You Need to Know About Variants
November 29, 2021: COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots
September 24, 2021: Booster Shots Are Coming. Here’s How To Figure Out If You Need One
July 27, 2021: When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated – How to Protect Yourself and Others
July 22, 2020: Duration of Isolation and Precautions for Adults with COVID-19
July 17, 2020: Criteria for Return to Work for Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Interim Guidance)
May 29, 2020: Considerations for Preventing Spread of COVID-19 in Assisted Living Facilities
April 30, 2020: Criteria for Return to Work for Healthcare Personnel with Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19 (Interim Guidance)
April 30, 2020: Discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions and Disposition of Patients with COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings (Interim Guidance)
April 24, 2020: Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System updates, Staff Counts, and FAQs: Memo
April 15, 2020: Key Strategies to Prepare for COVID-19 in Long-term Care Facilities (LTCFs)
April 15, 2020: Preparing for COVID-19: Long-term Care Facilities, Nursing Homes
April 15, 2020: Considerations When Preparing for COVID-19 in Assisted Living Facilities
Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Retirement Communities and Independent Living Facilities
Using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – Including how to put on and take off PPE
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Appendix PP State Operations Manual
Recent Updates for State Surveyors and Accrediting Organizations
CMS News Release (See bottom of page to scroll forward or backwards)
November 13, 2020: Nursing Home Resource Center
November 13, 2020: Quality, Safety & Education Portal (QSEP)
Current Emergencies – Press releases, waivers, current news on Coronavirus (scroll down for all releases on health care facilities)
Recent updates for State Surveyors and Accrediting Organizations
September 29, 2020: Guidance related to the Emergency Preparedness Testing Exercise Requirements – Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
July 10, 2020: CMS Directs Additional Resources to Nursing Homes in COVID-19 Hotspot Areas
May 19,2020: Testing Guidance for Nursing Homes
May 18, 2020: CMS Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials, QSO-20-30-NH
May 15, 2020: More Blanket Waivers. CMS issued more blanket section 1135 waivers this week including reducing feeding assistant training requirements, relaxing Life Safety Code standards for alcohol-based hand rubs, fire drills, and temporary structures, and allowing dialysis at remote sites such as facilities.
May 14, 2020: Trump Administration Announces Call for Nominations for Nursing Home Commission
May 8, 2020: CMS releases new revised set of F Tags
April 30, 2020: New Frequently Asked Questions on Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
April 30, 2020: CMS Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the nursing home response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
April 21, 2020: Revision: COVID-19 Emergency Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers
April 21, 2020: Updates to its COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket of Waivers for Health Care Providers (see changes in red)
April 19, 2020: Upcoming Requirements for Notification of Confirmed COVID-19 (or COVID19 Persons under Investigation) Among Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes
April 19, 2020: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Recommendations, Re-opening Facilities to Provide Non-emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare: Phase I
April 19, 2020: Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Retirement Communities and Independent Living Facilities (Interim Guidance)
April 13, 2020: CMS QSO-20-25-NH: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Long-Term Care Facility Transfer Scenarios
April 9, 2020: CMS News Alert
April 8, 2020: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IIDs) and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs)
April 7, 2020: Dear Clinician Letter
April 2, 2020: Key Recommendations to Nursing Homes
March 30, 2020: Sweeping Regulatory Changes to Help U.S. Healthcare System Address COVID-19 Patient Surge
March 30, 2020: Physicians and Other Clinicians: CMS Flexibilities to Fight COVID-19 (includes telehealth information)
March 27, 2020: Long-Term Care Nursing Homes Telehealth and Telemedicine Tool Kit
March 23, 2020: CMS Suspends Survey Activities QSO-20-20-ALL
March 23, 2020: Center for Clinical Standards and Quality/Quality Safety and Oversight Group
March 17, 2020: Medicare Telemedicine Health Care Provider Fact Sheet
March 13, 2020: CMS QSO-29-13-NH -Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nursing Homes (Revised)
March 4, 2020: CMS QSO-20-ALL: March 4, 2020 Suspension of Survey Activities
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Food Safety and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): FAQ on Food Safety
Food Safety and Hand Sanitizers
Other Sources of Information
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State Healthcare Associations
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
U.S. Department of Agriculture Coronavirus FAQs
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