Nursing Home Guidance Updates: Boosters, TNAs, and PA DOH Therapeutics Form

Guidance updates affecting nursing homes have rolled out in recent weeks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA DOH).In this week's episode, we'll get up to speed on the latest guidance on COVID-19 boosters, temporary nurse aides (TNAs), and PA DOH's therapeutics form. We’re joined by Penny Imes, Quality Improvement Specialist at Quality Insights.If you want to reach out to Penny directly, you can call Quality Insights at 1-800-642-8686 and enter extension 7644. You can also contact her via email at [email protected] discussed in this episode: - Credentia: http://www.credentia.com/test-takers/pa  - PA Department of Education (search “Temporary Nurse Aide): https://www.education.pa.gov/pages/search.aspx - Updates guidance on 2nd COVID-19 Booster shots: https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Nursing-Homes.aspx - COVID-19 Outpatient Therapeutics for LTCFs in PA:  https://mcusercontent.com/3c9fc473fc413830f0c7ccfaf/files/7e121600-c31a-e595-b4b7-b26aa9378285/PA_DOH_Therapeutics_for_LTCFs_0622.pdf Check out our other interviews by visiting qualityinsights.org/qin/multimedia.  This material was prepared by Quality Insights, a Quality Innovation Network - Quality Improvement Organization under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Views expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. Publication number 12SOW-QI-GEN-061622-CC-A