FMDA Journal Club | COVID-19: Leading the Charge

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD

Special Guest: Elizabeth Borer, RN

This session includes: operationalizing the response in skilled nursing facilities; the impact on the morale of nurses and staff, and the difficulties of maintaining a workforce through this pandemic; managing a SNF through an outbreak and addressing the possibility of achieving and maintaining “COVID-free” status; the role of the Medical Director during this pandemic and the responsibility of PALTC clinicians; how SNFs should be managing visitation and vendors; the evolution of Telehealth in facilities; and the variability and variance from county-to-county and state-to-state.

Recorded: July 8, 2020

Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical