Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes

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The Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes released their final report. Read it here Excerpt: Purpose of the Commission and This Report The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) tasked MITRE, the operator of the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (Health FFRDC), with an urgent assignment: Convene a commission of experts
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HHSC Expands Visitation at Long-Term Care Facilities, Allows Designated Essential Family Caregivers to Provide Support

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  AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott today directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to expand visitation options for eligible nursing, assisted living, and intermediate care facilities, home and community-based service providers, and inpatient hospice, effective Thursday, Sept. 24. HHSC’s updated emergency rules will allow a designated essential caregiver to provide supportive, hands-on care
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HHSC to Allow Limited Visitation at Nursing Facilities and Long-Term Care Facilities

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HHSC to Allow Limited Visitation at Nursing Facilities and Long-Term Care Facilities State Enhances Certain Emergency Safety Rules Nursing Facilities For the health and safety of facility residents and staff, public visitation is limited to outdoor visits only. Physical contact between residents and visitors is not permitted. Additional conditions a facility must meet to conduct
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AAACAP Striking a Balance Caregiver Conference

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Striking a Balance Caregiver Conference The Striking a Balance Caregiver Conference brings together local resources and national speakers to aid and educate family caregivers, so they can provide the best possible care for their loved ones and selves. It strives to connect family caregivers with new resources, tools and techniques that improves their total quality
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Risks for harm skyrocket for people with disabilities during pandemic

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Occasionally, in the long news cycle that is 100% coronavirus (COVID-19) 100% of the time, the spotlight will focus briefly on the spread of the virus among people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD) living in state-run settings. What is not mentioned in those stories is that people with IDD and other disabilities are not
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