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Long-Term Care, Residential Facilities, and COVID-19: An Overview of Federal and
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Chen AT
; Ryskina KL
; Jung HY
J Am Med Dir Assoc
2020[Sep]; 21
(9
): 1186-1190
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected residents and staff at
long-term care (LTC) and other residential facilities in the United States. The
high morbidity and mortality at these facilities has been attributed to a
combination of a particularly vulnerable population and a lack of resources to
mitigate the risk. During the first wave of the pandemic, the federal and state
governments received urgent calls for help from LTC and residential care
facilities; between March and early June of 2020, policymakers responded with
dozens of regulatory and policy changes. In this article, we provide an overview
of these responses by first summarizing federal regulatory changes and then
reviewing state-level executive orders. The policy and regulatory changes
implemented at the federal and state levels can be categorized into the following
4 classes: (1) preventing virus transmission, which includes policies relating to
visitation restrictions, personal protective equipment guidance, and testing
requirements; (2) expanding facilities' capacities, which includes both the
expansion of physical space for isolation purposes and the expansion of workforce
to combat COVID-19; (3) relaxing administrative requirements, which includes
measures enacted to shift the attention of caretakers and administrators from
administrative requirements to residents' care; and (4) reporting COVID-19 data,
which includes the reporting of cases and deaths to residents, families, and
administrative bodies (such as state health departments). These policies
represent a snapshot of the initial efforts to mitigate damage inflicted by the
pandemic. Looking ahead, empirical evaluation of the consequences of these
policies-including potential unintended effects-is urgently needed. The recent
availability of publicly reported COVID-19 LTC data can be used to inform the
development of evidence-based regulations, though there are concerns of reporting
inaccuracies. Importantly, these data should also be used to systematically
identify hot spots and help direct resources to struggling facilities.
|Assisted Living Facilities/organization & administration
[MESH]
|Betacoronavirus
[MESH]
|COVID-19
[MESH]
|Coronavirus Infections/*prevention & control
[MESH]