COVID Conversations | Nursing Homes and Assisted Living

State Guidance

• AFL 20-73 | Advance Care Planning, Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST), and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). (SNF Licensees)
• PIN 21-04-ASC | Advance Care Planning During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic (Adult and Senior care Program Residential Licensees)

Tools & Toolkits

• Toolkit on State Actions to Mitigate COVID-19 Prevalence in Nursing Homes | CMS
• ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network | Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG)
• Coronavirus Updates | California Association of Health Facilities
• Go to the Hospital or Stay Here? A Decision Guide for Residents, Families, Friends and Caregivers
• Long-Term Care Facility Guidance for POLST and COVID-19 | National POLST
• Compassionate Care Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis | AHCA and NCAL
• POLST QAPI Toolkit | CCCC
• Checklist Review Following an Expected Death | CCCC

Education/Videos

• Webinar: CCCC Decision Aids: Ventilators, CPR, Transfers, and Comfort Care, presented by Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD, MPH, author and practicing physician; and Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, Medical Director for Hospice by the Sea.
• Webinar: COVID Symptom Management in Skilled Nursing, presented by Takeshi Uemura, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, and a Founder of VitalTalk Japan; and Eric Chyn, MD, Geriatrician and Internal Medicine Physician, Community Health of Central Washington.

Palliative Care

• Palliative Medicine & End-Of-Life Care In Nursing Homes: CARE Recommendations