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Update: Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Work Blog

Following its November 12 release of guidance for nursing home visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS released three versions of frequently asked questions (FAQs) clarifying the guidance. The early January FAQs also discouraged large gatherings (within nursing homes) in which physical distancing cannot be maintained.

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Update: CMS Guidance for Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Work Blog

Following its November 12 release of guidance for nursing home visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS subsequently released two versions of frequently asked questions (FAQs) clarifying the guidance. The FAQs also discourage large gatherings (within nursing homes) in which physical distancing cannot be maintained.

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How Social Workers can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

Owner of Change Your Narrative consulting and training practice, Nancy S. Whether social workers use books, poetry, and writing exercises with individual clients in individual therapy, with groups of nursing home residents, or patients in a hospital setting, the possibilities are endless.

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How Social Workers Can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

Owner of Change Your Narrative consulting and training practice, Nancy S. Whether social workers use books, poetry, and writing exercises with individual clients in individual therapy, with groups of nursing home residents, or patients in a hospital setting, the possibilities are endless.

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Cost of care analyses show councils lack funding to pay providers fair price, warn directors

Community Care

In several cases, these were carried out by external consultants, who validated the provider data against existing models for calculating the costs of care. per hour for home care; A southern county identified a potential gap of £223 to £290 in care home rates though suggested this might be an overestimate.

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CQC ‘not fit for purpose’, says Streeting, in wake of damning report

Community Care

These were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at the services it regulates, residential homes, nursing homes and domiciliary care providers, found the interim report of Dr Penny Dash’s review of the CQC.

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CQC delivers initial verdict on council adults’ services under new assurance system

Community Care

While the regulator said effective workforce planning required collaboration, a survey of providers found that just 18% said their local authority consulted or engaged with them completely, with a further 44% saying their council did so to an extent.