Keeping Nursing Home Residents and Staff Safe in the Era of COVID-19: Effective Testing and Cohorting to Minimize Risk of Transmission | NLM

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Keeping Nursing Home Residents and Staff Safe in the Era of COVID-19: Effective Testing and Cohorting to Minimize Risk of Transmission

06/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Published: 6/2/2020. This one-hour, 25-minute webinar explores the challenges to—and appreciates the urgency of—effective cohorting of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak to prevent virus transmission; discusses the design and implementation of an actionable cohorting strategy based on CDC guidance; and examines approaches to mitigate risk associated with new admissions, readmissions, and residents who must routinely leave the nursing home or long-term care facility for medical appointments. (Video or Multimedia)