STATE NEWS
Important Survey on Staffing Shortages in Kansas
As we approach the 2023 Legislative Session we are gathering new data to tell the story of how staffing shortages in long term care affect the lives of older Kansans and their families. It has never been more important for the legislature to fully fund our nursing homes, support increased workforce in the health care sector, and enact important reforms for health care staffing agencies.
Please take a few minutes to fill out our “Admissions Survey” for nursing facilities and assisted living. If you operate both, please fill out a survey on each setting. Thank you!
Assisted Living Facility Survey
FEDERAL NEWS
CDC Clarifies Infection Control Practices
On December 1st, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clarified and posted revisions to its Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings. CDC states these fundamental standards should be implemented in all settings where healthcare is delivered. Two new practices were added, one on injection and medication safety and the other on minimizing potential exposure. Further, CDC added consideration for broader use of source control during periods of higher levels of community respiratory virus transmission to the section on Minimizing Potential Exposures.
LEADINGAGE KANSAS NEWS
Friday Webinar
Join us each Friday for an update on what is going on pertaining to COVID, updates on the association front, and much more.
If you haven’t registered already, you can do so here. You can also see archived webinars and get handouts here.
LEADINGAGE NATIONAL NEWS
Upcoming LeadingAge Coronavirus Calls. All calls are at 2:30 PM CT
On Monday December 5th, Ryan Brooks, Senior Principal, Healthcare Strategy at National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) will join us to talk about NIC’s latest WAVE of its survey of senior living and nursing home operators. We’ll talk to Ryan about the new questions that were added to this wave about portfolio diversification and about the finding that 25% of respondents said they are planning to downsize or close their nursing home and or short-term rehab units.
On Wednesday, December 7th, Dr. Dan Kelly, from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will join us to discuss their latest study on the impact of vaccines and boosters. Kelly and his team identified 1.6 million people who were fully vaccinated. Three quarters of them were over age 65 and 70% had a pre-existing condition that put them at greater risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID. Even while Delta and Omicron were circulating, these vaccinated and boostered individuals, reported in JAMA, were less likely to experience breakthrough infection and serious illness than those who had not been vaccinated and boostered.
If you haven’t registered for LeadingAge Update Calls, you can do so here. You can also find previous call recordings here. Note that to access recordings of the calls you need a LeadingAge password. Any staff member of any LeadingAge member organization can set up a password to access previous calls and other “members only” content.
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