Updates to COVID-19 Guidelines for Nursing Home Visitation & Testing

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently made updates to its guidelines for visitation and COVID-19 testing at nursing homes. Today, we discuss the changes with 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]. You can check out our other interviews by visiting qualityinsights.org/qin_vlogsnpods.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-033122-CC