This virtual networking session provides a safe space for Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing and Infection Preventionists to engage in a peer-to-peer discussion related to COVID-19 challenges, successes and raise questions for input from the group.

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This Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable will provide a safe space for Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing and Infection Preventionists to engage in a peer-to-peer discussion related to COVID-19 challenges, successes and raise questions for input from the group.

This Nursing Home Leadership Roundtable is an opportunity for nursing home leaders to learn about emerging regulatory and clinical guidance, share best practices and engage in discussion around nursing home priority issues such as COVID-19, influenza and quality improvement approaches. The calls, held on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, will provide didactic education followed by open discussion and Q&A on any nursing-home related topic. 

Effectively implementing cross-cutting strategies can accelerate your improvement efforts. This includes the engagement of residents and their family members as active partners throughout the change process. Resident and family engagement strategies will help your nursing home establish and sustain vital partnerships and help educate staff on how to develop and sustain these efforts in your improvement work. 

Dr. Jean Storm gives an overview of enhanced barrier precautions (EBPs) and discusses the latest updates for EBP guidance. Viewers will obtain an overview of the following: 

Promoting and maintaining high vaccination rates for recommended vaccines is a critical strategy for infection prevention. This virtual toolkit serves as a resource in assisting healthcare organizations and providers in their efforts to identify gaps and vaccinate more adults.