Skilled Nursing Facility

Researchers identified an unvaccinated, symptomatic health care worker as the index patient in a COVID-19 outbreak at a skilled nursing facility in Kentucky that totaled 46 cases, many of them among fully vaccinated residents and staff.

Researchers found high rates of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in a multistate sample of skilled nursing facilities between March and July.

Published results showed African American patients were more likely to be referred to inpatient rehabilitation facilities or skilled nursing facilities for postoperative care and rehabilitation after elective total knee arthroplasty compared with white patients.

by Curtis R. Baxstrom, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, FNORA

Dialyze Direct, a company specializing in home dialysis, has announced its expansion into Indiana.

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients colonized with Candida auris carry a high burden of the emerging and often multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen on their skin, suggesting that the natural process of skin shedding among these patients leads to contamination of the heath care environment and contributes to transmission, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, is transmitted within and between a variety of health care settings in Washington, D.C., a study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of American spring conference suggests.