STATE NEWS
KDHE Webinar on the New Enhanced Barrier Precautions – September 7th
KDHE is hosting a webinar to review new guidance on implementing Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP) aimed at reducing risks in LTC and SNF settings for transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs). Participants will learn about the impact and burden of MDROs in nursing homes, need for use of EBP, indications for and use of EBP, and how to be successful in implementing EBP to reduce healthcare exposures to MDROs. Registration is required to attend, and space may be limited. For more information and to register.
LEADINGAGE KANSAS NEWS
Friday Webinars: This Week We Will Talk About the CARE Backlog
This Friday, get the latest on the CARE/PASSR backlog and remedies from Drew Adkins, KDADS.
Stay up to date on COVID-19, CMS, the Legislature and more each Friday at 10 AM. If you haven’t registered for future calls, you can do so here. If you would like to listen to updates you have missed, visit this page.
LEADINGAGE NATIONAL NEWS
LeadingAge Coronavirus Update Call Wednesday, August 24th, at 2:30 PM CT
What does the research tell us about the impact of COVID on older adults in independent living? How can providers find and connect with community-based resources to build sustainable mental health programs and meet the needs of residents living with depression, anxiety and loneliness. Join us Wednesday to hear from Davis Park, Vice President with the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing, about their tele-wellness playbook for affordable senior housing communities.
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.
RESOURCES
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) — Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022
Individual risk for medically significant COVID-19 depends on a person’s risk for exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and their risk for developing severe illness if infected. Exposure risk can be mitigated through nonpharmaceutical interventions, including improving ventilation, use of masks or respirators indoors, and testing. The risk for medically significant illness increases with age, disability status, and underlying medical conditions but is considerably reduced by immunity derived from vaccination, previous infection, or both, as well as timely access to effective biomedical prevention measures and treatments. CDC’s public health recommendations change in response to evolving science, the availability of biomedical and public health tools, and changes in context, such as levels of immunity in the population and currently circulating variants. You can learn more here:Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevention Workshop
CDC and FDA have just announced the speakers list ahead of their co-sponsored public meeting on August 30th, Drug Development Considerations for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections. Registered attendees will hear experts discuss research and development needs for products, such as decolonization tools, that could help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), including antimicrobial-resistant HAIs. Speakers will also discuss ideas for research study designs that could provide evidence on potential products, as well as clinical results that may be relevant to assessing their efficacy. Prevention therapeutics and agents that stop the spread of dangerous germs (pathogens) will be critical to the nation’s success against antimicrobial resistance. Register Here
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