COVID-19 Serologic Strategies for Skilled Nursing Facilities (CERO)

NYU Langone Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

COVID-19

Treatments

Other: Cohorting

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT05270980

3U54AG063546-02S4 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

20-01281

Details and patient eligibility

About

The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged United States skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs). Novel strategies that maximize the safety and quality of life for SNF residents with ADRD and staff who care for them are urgently needed. Thus, the study's objectives are:

To rapidly plan and pilot test an intervention that leverages COVID-19 antibody and PCR status to pair SNF staff with residents in the safest way possible
To reduce reduced COVID-19 incidence rate compared to SNFs not using this novel staff-resident assignment strategy.

Enrollment

87 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Staff Stakeholders:

Must be employees of ArchCare
Must be members of included unit staff or those that float on those designated units
Willing to participate in focus groups or semi-structured interviews with study team

Inclusion Criteria for Family Participants:

Family members of residents who reside at either TCC or MMW (ArchCare facilities)
Family member of resident who is on designated study unit or eligible to be transferred to such unit
Willing to participate in focus groups or semi-structured interviews with study team

Inclusion Criteria for Resident Participants:

Resident has ability to communicate and follow simple commands
Resident has ability to communicate and follow simple commands
English- or Spanish-speaking
Resident has capacity to consent assessed with standard questions used to assess capacity or having a surrogate who can provide consent.
Must agree to have serologic testing for COVID-19
Agrees to remain on one of the facility units of study or to be transferred to such unit

Exclusion Criteria for Staff Stakeholders:

Not employees of ArchCare
Not members of included unit staff or those that float on those designated units
Not willing to participate in focus groups or semi-structured interviews with study team

Exclusion Criteria for Family Participants:

Not family members of residents who reside at either TCC or MMW (ArchCare facilities)
Not family member of resident who is on designated study unit or eligible to be transferred to such unit
Not willing to participate in focus groups or semi-structured interviews with study team

Exclusion Criteria for Resident Participants:

Resident is not living in the unit of intervention
Resident does not have ability to communicate and follow simple commands
Not English- or Spanish-speaking
Resident lacks capacity to consent assessed with standard questions used to assess capacity and does not have a surrogate who can provide consent.
If resident lacks capacity, that resident does not assent with surrogate who provides assent
Does not agree to have serologic testing for COVID-19
Refuses to agree to remain on one of the facility units of study or to be transferred to such unit