Long-term Care: COVID-19

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Testing
Infection prevention and control
Visitors and outside services
Staffing
Vaccination

Testing

• Long-term Care Testing: COVID-19
  All guidance and materials related to LTC testing activities.

Infection prevention and control

• Visit Infection Prevention and Control: COVID-19 for the following guidance documents:
  • COVID-19 PPE and Source Grids
  • Aerosol-Generating Procedures and Patients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Action Plan for Congregate Care Settings
    
    
• Employee Illness Tracking Tool (Excel) | Instructions (PDF)
  5/26/20
  
  
• Resident Cohorts for Respiratory Outbreaks in Long-term Care (PDF)
  Updated 2/17/22
  
  
• Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Fan Considerations for Long-term Care during COVID-19 (PDF)
  5/19/21
  
  
• Elections and Voting Guidance for Long-term Care Facilities (PDF)
  8/18/22
  
  
• CDC: Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Nursing Homes
  
  
• CDC: Interim guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2

Visitors and outside services

• COVID-19 Guidance: Long-term Care Indoor Visitation for Nursing Facilities and Assisted Living Settings (PDF)
  Updated 6/17/22

Staffing

• Health Care Worker Isolation and Quarantine Recommendations
  Includes foundational CDC guidance links and supplemental MDH recommendations to establish isolation and quarantine protocols.
  
  
• Defining Crisis Staffing Shortage in Congregate Care Facilities: COVID-19
  Review the criteria and definitions provided. A link to Clarification of Staffing Options provides more information.

Vaccination

• MIIC User Guidance and Training Resources
  Learn to use population-based tools and reports in MIIC, such as client follow-up, to determine COVID-19 vaccination status of your long-term care residents.

• How to Complete the Long-term Care COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting Form (PDF)
  Updated 5/26/21
  • LTC Weekly COVID-19 Vaccine Reporting Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)
    1/19/21
    
    
• COVID-19 Vaccination Tracking Tool for Long-term Care (Excel) | Instructions (PDF)
  1/6/21