Design and Implementation of a Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Unit

Brandon P. Verdoorn; Mairead M. Bartley; Lori J. Baumbach; Anupam Chandra; Kyle M. McKenzie; Maria Mendoza De la Garza; Daniel E. Sanchez Pellecer; Tina C. Small; Gregory J. Hanson

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.001

Design and Implementation of a Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Unit

Brandon P. Verdoorn, Mairead M. Bartley, Lori J. Baumbach, Anupam Chandra, Kyle M. McKenzie, Maria Mendoza De la Garza, Daniel E. Sanchez Pellecer, Tina C. Small, Gregory J. Hanson

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged the health care system's capacity to care for acutely ill patients. In a collaborative partnership between a health system and a skilled nursing facility (SNF), we developed and implemented an SNF COVID-19 unit to allow expedited hospital discharge of COVID-positive older adults who are clinically improving, and to provide an alternative to hospitalization for those who require SNF care but do not require or necessarily desire aggressive disease-modifying interventions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	971-973.e1
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.001
State	Published - May 2021

Keywords

COVID unit
COVID-19
SNF
coronavirus
long-term care facility
skilled nursing facility

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Nursing(all)
Health Policy
Geriatrics and Gerontology

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