Modeling Nursing Home Harms From COVID-19 Staff Furlough Policies
In this modeling study of staff COVID-19 furlough policies, allowing nursing home staff to work with mild COVID-19 illness was associated with fewer resident harms from staffing shortages and missed care tasks than harms from increased COVID-19 transmission, ultimately saving substantial direct medical and societal costs.
Authors
- Kelly J. O’Shea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4957-5975)
- Gabrielle Gussin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-7613)
- Michael Wasserman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7548-4770)
- Sheryl A. Scannell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2784-6279)
- Raveena Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-3663)
- Susan S. Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6748-3447)
- Marie F. Martinez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8725-1894)
- Kevin L. Chin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-7016)
- Jessie Heneghan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5274-9864)
- Sarah M. Bartsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0523-4717)
- Bruce Y. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2633-8651)
- Bruce Leff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-7458)
- Kavya Velmurugan
- Colleen Weatherwax (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5929-518X)
- Tej D. Shah
- Danielle C. John
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- City University of New York (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Nia Association (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2024-08-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29613
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.40