This guide is designed to provide long-term care staff with basic knowledge about facility infection prevention guidelines.
​The purpose of this resource is to provide guidance to long-term care facilities when making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
This document describes various State-based approaches to addressing social isolation in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This document provides guidance to long-term care facilities for making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
This resource, designed by AHRQ, supports the use of observational audits which assist in identification of staff compliance with infection prevention practices.
This resource, designed by AHRQ, will help nursing homes get started with observational auditing, so you have useful data to guide improvement.
​This document is a section of the All Cause Harm Prevention in Nursing Homes Change Package. It provides a description and list of successful practices of high-performing nursing homes and includes strategies and links to resources to prevent all types of infections.​
​This flyer highlights key Psychological First Aid concepts and resources disaster responders and outreach workers may use when assisting individuals affected by the pandemic. It also provides resources for further assistance.
This infographic for nurses provides instructions for disinfecting and entering the home after work.
This resource addresses infection control and prevention in nursing homes, highlighting screening and monitoring, testing and responding, and quarantine and isolation. It also provides a sample decision tree for monitoring residents during daily encounters for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
This document includes examples of caring communication in a variety of situations.
This brief document describes steps to clean and disinfect a nursing home or other healthcare facility, what to do when someone is sick, and additional considerations for employers.
This infographic includes tips for clinicians to encourage taking care of themselves one small way each day.
​​This document provides guidance on cohorting in order to reduce the exposure of residents without COVID-19.
​This document provides ideas for communicating with family members of residents during COVID-19.
​​This resource provides guidance on compassionate care during COVID-19.
This tip sheet offers ways to implement and sustain consistent assignment of point-of-care staff.
This infographic demonstrates how to safely put on (don) and take off (doff) COVID-19 personal protective equipment for contact and droplet precautions.
​This document contains recommendations and specifications related to core components for effective infection prevention and control programs.
​​This fact sheet summarizes best practices for national implementation to sustain personalprotective equipment while ensuring the protection of healthcare personnel and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
This document provides ideas for keeping in touch with loved ones living in long-term care facilities when you are unable to visit them in-person.
​This toolkit is a compilation of considerations for long-term care facilities based on lessons learned during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied by resources to inform planning and response efforts.
This guide assists healthcare professionals in having conversations about values and care preferences with patients and caregivers.
​This preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
​This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.