​The purpose of this resource is to provide guidance to long-term care facilities when making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
​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 LeadingAge toolkit was developed to help long-term care settings increase vaccine access for residents, care recipients, and staff.
This checklist will help post-acute and long-term care settings prepare to administer booser immunizations.
​This document provides guidance to clinicians caring for COVID-19 patients during all phases of their disease (i.e. screening to discharge).
The guide helps healthcare staff and leaders engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination.
​This document provides a list of COVID-19 testing vendors for long term care. The list contains the vendor's name, company details, testing process description, turnaround time, test and billing information, service area and contact information.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
This Fact Sheet provides instructions for preparation and administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older.
The partnership survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and The Washington Post examines the experiences and attitudes of frontline healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic. This report highlights findings from the survey related to vaccine intentions among frontline healthcare workers and the toll of the coronavirus pandemic on healthcare workers.
This flyer provides instructions on how to use V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccination.​
In this communications guide, Ann Christiano and Jack Barry from the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida share 8 Principles of COVID-19 Vaccine Communications.
This resource provides nursing home leadership with important factors to consider when developing and implementing a staff vaccination program.
This guide outlines steps to safely and correctly administer an intramuscular injection, like the COVID-19, flu, pneumonia, and shingles vaccines.
This guide is designed to help nursing home leaders build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among CNAs and overcome barriers to vaccination by applying insights from social, behavioral and cognitive science.
This guide assists nursing home facility leadership with having effective one-on-one conversations with staff on vaccines and delivering a standardized curriculum to help raise staff awareness of accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines.Â
This flyer provides messaging to encourage long term care staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
This webpage provides information on on reporting options, data collection forms, form instructions, archived and upcoming trainings on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) COVID-19 Module.
This flyer highlights strategies long-term care staff and leadership to consider when interacting with residents to support positive outcomes for both staff and residents.
This document provides guidance that builds upon CDC’s post-vaccine consideration for healthcare workers.
This employer resource poster promotes COVID-19 safety for cleaning staff.
This fact sheet provides information on the possible symptoms of COVID-19.
This organized curriculum and step-by-step facilitator guide presents fact-based information in a 10-minute module format to nursing home staff on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.Â
A personal essay by a Black physician about her decision to participate in a vaccine trial and how that decision was complicated by histories of medical abuse and neglect of Black patients.
​This one-pager provides tips for working with the press during COVID-19 vaccine distribution.