085 - COVID-19 and the Future of Long Term Care Facilities

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Long term care facilities that house vulnerable populations in a communal living setting have been hotbeds for COVID-19 outbreaks. Infectious disease physician Dr. Morgan Katz has been working with some facilities to provide guidance on COVID-19 response. She talks with Stephanie Desmon about infection control procedures, how testing is a double edged sword, the biggest lessons we've learned so far, and what the future of long term care facilities may look like.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:43.2	Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Dr. Morgan Katz,
0:47.7	a geriatrician and infectious disease specialist
0:50.7	at Johns Hopkins.
0:52.7	They discuss how nursing homes have become hotspots for COVID-19 and what
0:57.6	nursing homes will look like after the pandemic. Let's listen. Thanks so much for joining me.
1:05.3	Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to be here. Today I'd like to ask you some questions
1:10.0	about nursing homes, but first,
1:11.7	could you tell our listeners a little bit about your background with long-term care facilities?
1:16.5	Sure. So I'm an infectious disease physician at Hopkins, and I really started my career,
1:24.4	actually, doing some consulting at long-term care facilities during fellowship. I was helping
1:30.5	them to review antibiotics and residents that were having issues with infections in those facilities.
1:38.3	And when I was there, I identified a lot of issues in terms of infection prevention and antibiotic
1:43.5	use.
1:51.2	And since then, really dedicated my research to making infection prevention more feasible in nursing homes, understanding some of the challenges and the resource limitations they have
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