VHCA-VCAL | Recording of Today's Member Call, Info on Conferring Rights to VDH for NHSN Data

Greetings!

Here is a link to a recording of today's member webinar. You will need the password as well.

Listen to the Webinar

Password: N69!Lwf*

We have also included:

instructions on conferring rights to VDH for NHSN data;
quick links to the VDH Nursing Home Guidance for Phased Reopening and the FAQs;
information on the new Virginia Workplace Safety Standards; and
a link to an article on the CDC updates to transmission-based precautions, duration of isolation, and return to work criteria.

Sincerely,

April Payne, LNHA

Vice President of Quality Improvement | Director of VCAL

Virginia Health Care Association | Virginia Center for Assisted Living

NHSN Data to Be Shared with VDH

Instructions on Conferring Rights

The Code of Virginia (§32.1-35.1) requires health care facilities that are required to report information about healthcare-associated infections to the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) pursuant to CMS reporting requirements shall release that data to VDH. In order for VDH to see the COVID-19 data being reported to NHSN, facilities should confer rights to the VDH NHSN group that is managed by the Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Program.

VDH has posted a memo from Commissioner of Health Dr. Norman Oliver as well as instructions for nursing homes to join the VDH NHSN group on the LTC Task Force webpage.

VDH Nursing Home Guidance

for Phased Reopening and FAQs

An update to the VDH Nursing Home Guidance for Phased Reopening was posted on July 17, 2020. Please note that the hyperlinks to the guidance VDH and VHCA-VCAL have shared previously automatically link to the most updated version of the guidance.

The table of contents includes a dated summary of the changes that have been made to the guidance.

Remember to also check the VDH Nursing Home Reopening Guidance FAQs. Changes and updates to the FAQs are not dated.

Virginia Workplace Safety Standards

The Virginia Department of Labor and Industry (DOLI) posted the final Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for COVID-19 prevention and mitigation. The standard will be published and take effect on July 27, 2020.

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