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Advancing Education and Building Trust to Address COVID-19 in Communities of Color

April is National Minority Health Month. With COVID-19 having a disproportionate impact in communities of color, emphasis on improving access to vaccines as they become more widely available and eliminating health care inequities is critical.

Lilly clinically tests antibody against COVID-19 variants

Drug maker Eli Lilly is testing a SARS-CoV-2 antibody designed to work against all variants of COVID-19 currently known to be circulating.

HHS channels ARP dollars to rural COVID-19 response

Nearly $1 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding will be used to strengthen COVID-19 response efforts and increase vaccinations in rural communities, Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week.

CMS expands COVID-19 requirements for long-term care

This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule requiring long-term care facilities in the Medicare and Medicaid programs

IFDHE toolkit addresses cultural humility training

The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black Americans, Native American tribes and tribal populations, Latino Americans and other communities of color

Project Firstline seeks focus group participants

Project Firstline is seeking U.S. health care personnel involved in overseeing students and/or teaching infection control to participate in a focus group and share their

Researchers track pandemic’s effects on nurse sensitive indicators

An analysis in the August issue of Nurse Leader outlines the effects of the pandemic on nurse sensitive indicators (NSIs) as described by chief nursing officers from across

HHS issues joint statement on COVID-19 booster shots

On Wednesday, public health and medical experts from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the administration had created a plan to begin offering

White House will spend $9 billion to fight COVID-19 in rural areas

Last Friday, the White House announced it will spend $8.5 billion from the American Rescue Plan to help rural health care providers in the fight against COVID-19.

CDC analysis shows 2020 increase in HAIs

A study published this week in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) shows that after years of steady