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Last week’s CMS Testing Rule generated many new tools for nursing homes on our COVID-19 webpage.

A first step in maintaining your resilience during stressful times is to learn to take your stress temperature. As you notice yourself getting

Last week the LeadingAge national team submitted comments on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Discussion Draft of the Preliminary Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine,

On September 1, 2020 a federal eviction moratorium was announced which is effective through the end of year. The CDC announced an “exceedingly rare” order

During the past week, several new tools on testing have been added to the LeadingAge Minnesota COVID-19 webpage.

Safe Care Champions play an important role in meeting our collective goal of Eliminating Preventable Harm in the Course of Caregiving (which includes eliminating preventable infections during the COVID-19 pandemic). 

As we move into this next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, you may want to share this forward-looking video with staff— entitled The Phoenix: When This Will All End.

NAMI-MN has just released its “Minnesota Healthcare Heroes: Self Care for Senior Workers During COVID-19” interactive online e-learning program.

Last month, the Legislature approved more than $20M in state CARES Act relief funds to provide retention grants to adult day services providers to address the impact of business interruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Minnesota Legislature approved a one-time appropriation to temporarily increase Housing Support funding through the Department of Human Services for expenses in the months of March, April, and May 2020.

Last Thursday HHS made a distribution from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) to nursing homes, which was half of a total distribution of $5 billion that was announced in July.

Care centers are reminded that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has resumed standard recertification surveys as of mid-August, consistent with CMS memorandum QSO-20-35-ALL.  

Late Tuesday, HHS formally announced a private pay distribution from the CARES Act provider relief funds for licensed assisted living providers. 

Earlier this week, LeadingAge Minnesota offered a one-hour webinar featuring Covid-19 communications experiences from Bethesda in Willmar, Emerald Crest Memory Care in Burnsville as well as a review of the modified visitation guidelines by LeadingAge Nurse Consultant Kari Everson

Earlier this week the LTC Imperative completed our second short, one-day survey, which looked at employee and resident testing. Testing is an important aspect of containing outbreaks during the pandemic and the survey results will help inform our advocacy on testing policies and payment.

Being stressed out is a natural reaction to the extraordinary situation we find ourselves in during this pandemic, but after six months we are all struggling with exhaustion and chronic stress.

One-hour training sessions on COVID-19 critical topics such infection prevention, early detection, and managing staffing challenges are now available through the new

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across Minnesota, we have developed a COVID-19 External Communications toolkit to help communicate with the media and other external audiences about the importance of prevention precautions as well as your plan for visitation modification.