A local COVID-19 support platform for nursing homes: feedback and perspectives

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on nursing homes (NHs), which were not prepared to manage infections among their at-risk patient populations. In order to comply with the French government ’s guidelines, we rapidly set up a local support platform (LSP) to help NHs to manage their cases of COVID-19. The LSP comprised multidisciplinary decision support, a specialist phone hotline, mobile geriatric medicine teams, and videoconferences on COVID-19.We first quantified the LSP’s interve ntions in 63 local NHs since the start of the first wave of COVID-19 (March 2020): 9 instances of multidisciplinary decision support, 275 calls to the specialist phone hotline, 84 interventions by mobile geriatric medicine teams and 16 videoconferences.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Pragmatic Innovations Source Type: research