Ask A Frustrated Nurse Episode 19

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Long-term nursing home residents saw 15 percent fewer hospitalizations during the pandemic.

Short-term residents are seeing an 8 percent functional improvement during COVID-19.

Seventy-two percent of more than 110,000 infection control-focused inspections of nursing homes conducted from 2020-to 2022 were deficiency-free.

Nearly 60 percent of nursing home resident COVID-19 deaths occurred in the first seven months of the pandemic.

The risk of COVID-19 mortality for people 85 years and older is 340 times higher than for those 18 to 29.

High spread in the community is often correlated with outbreaks in nursing homes.

Residents were four times less likely to succumb to COVID-19 during the omicron surge compared to the height of the 2020 winter surge.

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