National Guard deployed to Milton retirement home to help with COVID-19 outbreak
Updated May 01, 2021;
MILTON A Pennsylvania National Guard team deployed to Rockwell Retirement and Community Arts Center in Milton on Friday to provide assistance as the facility manages a COVID-19 outbreak.
LTC Keith Hickox, the state public affairs officer, confirmed that the decision was made to deploy 12 guardsmen to the facility at 32 S. Turbot Ave., Milton. The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows that the facility has less than five positive cases for both residents and staff and no deaths.
The countywide database that is updated daily by DOH officials with facility-specific numbers, has shown some recent increases in Northumberland County.
Western Pennsylvania Health Care Partners Announce Scholarship Program for Long-Term Care Infection Prevention Specialists
April 26, 2021
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Infection prevention in long-term care facilities has never been more vital than during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this unprecedented year, facilities across the world have been on the front lines battling the deadly virus.
To support their efforts to care for one of the most vulnerable populations, the Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams (RCATs) have launched a scholarship program to help nurses, nurse practitioners, medication technicians and other clinicians in Western Pennsylvania long term care facilities to become certified infection preventionists.
“Infection prevention specialists are so important to the care of residents in long-term care facilities,” said April L. Kane, a social worker with UPMC Community Provider Services. “As part of this state collaborative, UPMC is thrilled to provide aid to further the
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Pennsylvania extends nursing home coronavirus response program
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HARRISBURG - Wolf administration officials said Thursday that Pennsylvania will extend a key feature of its response to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes, albeit on a scaled-down model after federal funding ran out in December.
The Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams now will run through May, costing $6 million a month to support services such as testing, staffing and rapid response services for outbreaks, administration officials said. Some of that money is state aid that the Wolf administration expects to get reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The program succeeding last year’s Regional Response Health Collaborative had been scheduled to lapse at the end of February after the Wolf administration ran it for two months on a smaller scale.
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