COVID-19 Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes: Join Bi-Weekly National Nursing Home Huddles
COVID-19 Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes: Join Daily National Nursing Home Huddles Starting May 4
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation and in partnership with the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, launched the COVID-19 Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes in May. The network is designed to support nursing home leadership, staff, residents and families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Rapid Response Network has featured daily 20-minute National Nursing Home Huddles weekly since May to provide real-time, practical solutions that can be immediately implemented to solve many of the key problems brought about or exacerbated by COVID-19. Starting the week of September 7 and through October 29, the huddles occurred two days per week, still 20-minutes in length from 12:00-12:20 ET and on topics ranging from PPE to dementia care to the 4Ms of age-friendly care.
Important update: This work has evolved into the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network, a partnership between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Project ECHO and IHI.
Benefits of participation in the huddles included:
- Immediate access to specific, pragmatic guidance on clinical and operational issues confronting the nursing home community today. Guidance will be focused, and ready to implement.
- Ability to speak with collective voice to federal and state policy makers, regulators, healthcare systems and others to help remove policy and regulatory barriers to mission-critical operational challenges.
- Access to tools and materials to help explain the work of nursing homes and promote participation in the COVID-19 Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes. These tools will aid nursing homes to communicate with local media outlets about efforts to serve and protect residents and staff.com
To learn more about the COVID-19 Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes bi-weekly huddles through October 29, click here.
To learn more about the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network, click here.
To watch The John A. Hartford Foundation May 1 webinar recording, Supporting Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Crisis, clickhere.
To learn more about Age-Friendly Health Systems, click here.