It goes by several names: Long-COVID, Long-Haul COVID, Post-Acute COVID, Chronic COVID. People who have been infected with COVID-19 can experience a wide range health problems similar to the symptoms they experienced after first being infected. 

For the next three weeks, we’ll be talking about Long COVID and what nursing homes can do about it. This week, we discussed an overview of Long-Haul COVID with Shirley Sullivan, Quality Improvement Specialist at Quality Insights.

If you want to reach out to Shirley directly, you can call Quality Insights at 1-800-642-8686 and enter extension 7805. You can also contact her via email at [email protected]. 

Related links from this discussion: 

- CDC Interim Guidance on Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Post-COVID Conditions: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/post-covid-index.html 

- RECOVER: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery: https://recovercovid.org/

You can check out our other interviews by visiting qualityinsights.org/qin/multimedia.  

This material was prepared by Quality Insights, a Quality Innovation Network - Quality Improvement Organization under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Views expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. Publication number 12SOW-QI-GEN-052622-CC-A.