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E-News Update

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December 31, 2020

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COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics Offer Hope to Long Term Care Staff and Residents

Amidst celebratory backdrops, on December 28th more than 30 nursing facilities in Massachusetts began vaccinating residents and staff with the COVID-19 vaccine, offering a sign of hope to facilities that have courageously battled this insidious virus over the past 10 months. “Today marks a critical and hopeful milestone in our fight against Covid-19 with the first wave of vaccines being distributed in nursing facilities across the Commonwealth,” said Tara M. Gregorio, Mass Senior Care Association President.

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Congressional Delegation Advocates for Additional Vaccination Clinic at LTC Facilities

The Massachusetts Congressional Delegation this week sent a letter, led by Congresswoman Lori Trahan, to the Director of the CDC requesting that the CDC approve the Commonwealth’s request to offer four vaccination clinics at long-term care facilities in Massachusetts through the Long-Term Care Pharmacy Partnership Program.

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Arming Ourselves Against COVID-19 Resources Translated Into Four Languages

Mass Senior Care is making resources available in its COVID-19 Vaccination Toolkit accessible to staff by providing materials in four different languages, including Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Haitian Creole and Traditional

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NHSN Data Upload Issues Reported

The National Health Care Safety Network (NHSN) has reported that there is an error occurring with data upload to the NHSN Long Term Care Facility modules. This has to do with an incorrect auto-populated date error. The ​CDC is urgently working to correct the NHSN application error that is impacting reporting COVID-19 data since December 26, 2020. When entering weekly COVID-19 data for the week of December 21-27, the pre-populated date for the week indicates that the week ends on December 27, 2021, instead of December 27, 2020. When trying to save data, the system generates an error message and will not allow facilities to save their data. A solution will be deployed in the NHSN application later this week, but until then a work-around can be used to continue reporting COVID-19 vaccination data.

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Happy New Year - Best Wishes for a Happy Healthy 2021!

Happy New Year Best Wishes for a Happy Healthy 2021! From Mass Senior Care

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In This Issue

  • COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics Offer Hope to Long Term Care Staff and Residents
  • Congressional Delegation Advocates for Additional Vaccination Clinic at LTC Facilities
  • Arming Ourselves Against COVID-19 Resources Translated Into Four Languages
  • NHSN Data Upload Issues Reported
  • Happy New Year - Best Wishes for a Happy Healthy 2021!

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