A COVID -19 specific sign in / sign out sheet for visitors that you can use at your facility, along with a policy and procedure you can customize. Click here to download: https://riskmanagement.healthcapusa.com/files/185963
PPE Tracking Logs
Providing adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) is imperative to protecting staff, but facilities need to make sure they are not wasting any or burning through it too quickly. Use our PPE tracking logs, both standard and COVID-19 Care specific, to keep track of where your supplies are going. Click here for our Daily PPE Tracking Log Click here for our …
Notification Toolkit
CMS has new guidance requiring nursing homes to report COVID-19 related data to the CDC/NHSN database weekly which is in addition to any state and local reporting currently being done. This requirement is effective May 17, 2020 with public reporting of facility numbers of COVID cases, both resident and staff. Effective May 8, 2020, additional reporting requires that with any …
Spotlight on HealthCap Heroes:
First & Main of New Albany In these uneasy times of social distancing and restricted visits, the team at First & Main Assisted Living and Memory Care has brought back a sense of normalcy with their ‘Resident and Family Communication Lounge.’ Complete with lounge chairs, shade for sunny days, and markers and paper to craft notes to loved ones, the …
Staff Return to Work Algorithm
Does a member of your staff have symptoms of COVID-19? Did a staff member test positive for COVID-19, but remains asymptomatic? Click below to access our recommendations, based on CDC guidance, of when and how they should return to work. https://80fee2ec951e17a2efc9-3f722877eef59cb04cbb76e3d9907237.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/hcrmi_f29d5613d708f481b424b064b7a72920.pdf
Spotlight on HealthCap Heroes:
Vista Springs in Wyoming has adapted activities for social distancing while still trying to keep them fun and upbeat. One of the newest is Movie Making Monday! Their team creates a video with residents and staff as the stars and at the end of the week they are able to see the finished product. It has brought so much joy …
COVID-19 Specimen Collection
Click below to access our policy adhering to CDC guidelines and physician orders to collect nasopharyngeal specimens for testing for 2019-Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19: https://80fee2ec951e17a2efc9-3f722877eef59cb04cbb76e3d9907237.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/hcrmi_40a3e3a2fd935f4172efb94e0cb9b2c7.pdf