The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially approved the recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for immunization schedules.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) reports increases in flu, COVID-19 and RSV in Michigan.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially approved the recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for immunization schedules. The 2025...
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The Michigan Medicaid Policy Bulletin number: MMP 24-53, issued November 19 2024, outlines changes to LOCD Policy. These changes will be effective December 14, 2024:...
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The Long Term Care Data Cooperative is a national effort to collect real-time data from electronic medical record (EMR) vendors and the CDC to assist...
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On October 4, 2024 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) replaced the influenza-like illness (ILI) metric on the Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel. The...
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is promoting Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) awareness for the month of November. As C. diff causes almost...
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The American Health Care Association (AHCA), in partnership with the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing (AAPACN), has developed an on-demand Certificate Program to help...
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On October 16, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning regarding Cue Health’s two COVID-19 test kits, the Cue COVID-19 Test and the...
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On October 23, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended that people 65 years and older and those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised receive...
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The American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living Chief Medical Officer David Gifford discusses in a new op-ed and on the AHCA/NCAL podcast “Perspectives in the Long-Term Care” why it...
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As we enter the fall and winter months, protecting our most vulnerable population in long term and post-acute care is crucial. Respiratory viruses such as...
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The National Healthcare Safety Network's (NHSN’s) new module is a simplified version that has reduced six forms down to two forms. With the new, up-to-date...
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The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens (CORHA), created out of the CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, redesigned their website...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert to notify health care providers, public health authorities and the public about the increases in...
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is reminding long-term care facilities that the current open enrollment period for recurring testing supply allocation...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Network Health Advisory to inform health care providers, laboratory professionals, health care facility...
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The CDC updated their website with new vaccine product summaries now available in a single site with information for each manufacturer about how to order, store and...
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) analyzed the U.S. burden of seven antimicrobial-resistant pathogens typically found in health care settings from 2021 through 2022. A new...
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The Superior Health Quality Alliance team created a Vaccine Passport to help keep track of current and future vaccines. This poster is one version of the resource,...
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At the end of June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its recommendations for vaccination against COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), based...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion offers free resources for patients and health care professions: (1) Be Antibiotics...
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This year’s warm, wet spring has produced a variety of biting mosquitoes that can spread diseases. The majority are mosquitoes that hatched in May and...
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Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated recommendations for U.S. suppliers of plastic syringes, consumers, health care providers and facilities. The FDA notes that —...
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As we shared in the March Newsletter, the April 11, 2024, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Nursing Facility Touchpoint Meeting focused on...
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Surveillance for Healthcare-Associated &...
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In late March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance for state survey agencies and long-term care (LTC) facilities regarding Enhanced Barrier...
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The Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) program helps the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implement key elements of the Department of Health...
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Dr. Kara Jacobs Slifka, CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Long-term Care Team Lead, shared a statement and summary of guidance for LTC staff. The...
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) provides quarterly open enrollment opportunities for LTC facilities that want recurring testing supply allocations. The current open...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released two reports on vaccination coverage and treatment for respiratory viruses. The agency found that vaccine fatigue, inaccurate health information...
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Office of Nursing Safety and Workforce Planning (MDHHS-ONP) gathers data from Michigan's nursing workforce to support informed...
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Looking for ways to overcome COVID vaccine hesitancy and fatigue among staff and residents? Join the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the Centers for...
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The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) released a summary of 2024 Michigan Communicable Disease Surveillance and Reporting Changes. The updated 2024 Reportable Diseases in...
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In partnership with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) Surveillance for Healthcare-Associated...
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To simplify reporting requirements, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) reporting requirements for skilled nursing facilities. The CDC eliminated the requirement...
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We are seeing an uptick in COVID cases, both in facilities and among the general public, this fall. It's important that providers have measures in place...
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The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) created a webpage, Resources to Prepare for Flu, COVID-19, and RSV. It features toolkits and resources for a...
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) scheduled a special edition of the Nursing Facility Touchpoint series regarding the upcoming respiratory season. Natasha Bagdasarian,...
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Updated COVID-19 vaccinations, which are formulated to target currently circulating variants and provide better protection against serious COVID-19 consequences including hospitalization and death have recently...
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AHCA/NCAL is asking providers (SNF, AL, ID/DD) to complete a survey to see how long-term care is faring. Providers will be asked about a few topics including...
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Surveillance of Healthcare Associated and Resistant Pathogens (SHARP) Unit is recruiting nursing facilities interested in working...
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Are you looking for options to provide Infection Preventionist (IP) training for your staff? Check out some of the options available. The following organizations offer an...
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The CDC recently issued a health advisory regarding infections with an extensively drug-resistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa associated with artificial tears use. A variety of symptoms and sequela...
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Engergy's Materials Management Division launched an electronic management system for medical waste registrations called MiEnviro Portal. The online portal will allow...
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