Long-term and residential care facilities

Public health order

Public health and executive orders page for Public Health order 20-20 and others.
 
This order requires all Colorado licensed or certified skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and assisted living residences to take a number of steps to help prevent and control outbreaks. Please read the public health order carefully.

Guidance for residential care facilities

CDPHE guidance and resources:

Setting specific guidance

• Residential Care Facility Mitigation Guidance:
  • Nursing Home and Intermediate Care Facility Mitigation and Outbreak Guidance
  • Assisted Living Residences and Group Home Mitigation and Outbreak Guidance
• Healthcare Community Transmission Levels
• Roadmap to CDPHE COVID-19 response in residential care settings for
  new administrators, executive directors, and/or directors of nursing

COVID-19 vaccination

• Ongoing COVID-19 Long-Term Care Vaccination Plan
• Long-Term Care Vaccine Clinic Toolkit
• COVID-19 Vaccination Schedules

CDPHE Forms and Checklists

Outbreak forms

• Fill out the CDPHE COVID-19 outbreak report form and send it to the local public health agency (go here or email the PDF form).
• COVID-19 line list templates | Español (Excel)

CDC guidance

• CDC Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic. 

CMS guidance 

• Interim Final Rule (IFC), CMS-3401-IFC, Long-Term Care (LTC) Facility Testing Requirements and Revised COVID-19 Focused Survey Tool. 

Residential care strike team

In order to reduce the spread of illness and the number of deaths in residential care settings, the state launched a Residential Care Strike Team in late April 2020. The Residential Care Strike Team is composed of representatives of the Governor’s office and state agencies that play a role in regulating and supporting residential care facilities: The Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), Human Services (DHS), Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), Department of Public Safety and Regulatory Agencies (DORA). The goal of the Residential Care Strike Team is to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in all high-density environments serving older adults and people with disabilities.

Need assistance?

• CDPHE hosts a bi-weekly virtual technical support meeting.  If you would like to sign up to receive occasional infection prevention updates and information to join the technical support meeting please sign up to receive those notifications here. If you have not already done so, register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FKlE8zPHTjq3XseN36vTWw
• CDPHE call center is available to answer calls from facilities from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Call 303-692-2700 or email cdphe_covid_outbreak@state.co.us After hours, call 303-370-9395.
• Find your local public health agency

Who do I contact? (Flyer)

• Residential Care Strike Team
  residentialcarestriketeam@state.co.us
  • Testing supplies
  • COVID-19 treatments
  • Vaccine clinics
  • Guidance questions (can also be directed to the infection prevention team)
  • Newsletter/call questions
  • Staffing
     
• Infection Prevention Program 
  cdphe_covid_infection_prevention@state.co.us
  • Questions about disease control 
    • Isolation 
    • Quarantine 
    • PPE use 
    • Infection Prevention related questions
       
• Residential Care Epi Team 
  cdphe_co_res_care_epi_team@state.co.us
  • Reporting an outbreak 
  • Sending updated line lists