Measles outbreaks have drawn headlines in recent weeks as the number of cases and outbreaks in more than a dozen US states is already the highest since 2019. The highly infectious disease poses multiple challenges to nursing homes that have become more pressing in recent years, according to Deborah Burdsall, PhD, director at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Infectious Disease News | COVID-19 placed a strain on infection prevention and control programs, highlighting vulnerabilities that existed before the pandemic, according to experts.Guidance published earlier this year by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) could help ensure that facilities are better prepared to protect patients.
Flu, once the respiratory scourge that nursing home residents and professionals feared the most each year before COVID-19 hit, should be back on providers’ radar in a big way, experts warn.
With the lessons of the pandemic fresh in mind, now is the time for LTC administrators to commit to recruiting and training dedicated, on-site infection preventionists, experts say. Sources of federal and state help are plentiful, they add.
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