The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Targeted COVID-19 Training for Frontline Nursing Home Staff and Management is a great resource for nursing home staff to put the latest information regarding infection control, COVID-19 preparedness, resident-centered care, vaccine distribution and other important topics into practice.

The User Guide provides step-by-step instructions to access the free, on-demand trainings. The Group Facilitator's Guide contains everything you need to train your staff as a team. Certificates of completion are available for all learners. Need Spanish Language Resources to train your team? Project Firstline offers infection prevention training facilitation guides and materials in Spanish.

Has your nursing home completed the training? Celebrate your success with your staff, residents and community with a Kudos Kit available through your QIN-QIO.


User Guide

This one-stop-shop User Guide contains everything your nursing home needs to access and complete the training. The User Guide walks you through a pre-training checklist, registration, course selection, contacts and more.


Group Facilitator's Guide

This Group Facilitator's Guide provides everything you need to train your staff as a team, including a pre-training checklist and agenda, promotional flyers, user guide and more.


Spanish Language Resources

This Spanish Language Resources Guide summarizes how you can access CMS-approved infection control and prevention training facilitation guides and materials in Spanish.