NEW INFORMATION from THE AMERICAN Health Care Association/ National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/ NCAL) warns long term care providers to be on high alert for possible scams involving personal protective equipment (PPE) at a time of shortages of such supplies as masks and gowns during the current COVID-19 pandemic. "Shortages of PPE such as N95 respirators persist," the association said. "However, there is no shortage of nonmedical suppliers and distributors that claim to have N95 and KN95 masks and other PPE for sale." Many of the sales calls come from third-party representatives claiming to have ready access to PPE, but AHCA/NCAL said providers should "be cautious and ask yourself, 'Why does this nonmedical distributor have access to PPE when the major medical distributors and suppliers that I have used in the past do not?'"
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