Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor is being addressed in other organizations

One of the articles reviewed includes the article by Katarzyna Szczerbińska, which focused on the possibility that nursing homes would have done better before the disease became so severe. According to the article, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported that 66% of all the deaths related to COVID-19 in the country were from the residents of long-term care facilities.

The article iterates on the concept that the nursing homes were not prepared for the outbreak, and there were limited measures on the impact of the disease and the available control measures (Szczerbińska, 2020). Following the high incidence rates, the CDC developed proper recommendations that can be used by LTC facilities to keep CVID-19 from entering the facility and affecting the residents.

These measures have since been adopted by most nursing homes and have also been incorporated with additional measures specific to the facility (Szczerbińska, 2020). The article iterates on the measures that are effective for the nursing homes and their benefit in creating preparedness for a possible second wave of the disease.

The second article by Verbeek et al. (2020) focuses on the measures required before allowing visitors back to the nursing homes when the pandemic is still on the rise, and the vulnerable residents are still susceptible to the disease. The objective of the research is in line with the prevention and control of the infections related to COVID-19 among nursing homes all over the world by implementing restrictive measures (Verbeek et al., 2020).

The article iterates on the importance of having strict measures and guidelines that restrict visitation to the nursing homes in the bid to reduce the infection rate and possibly contain the disease. The statistics from the article depict that between 19% and 72% of the individual who died due to the COVID-19 pandemic were residents of nursing homes (Verbeek et al., 2020).

The overview describes the impact that the disease had on the population and how visitation was among the leading cause for the surge. The implementation of restrictive measures is important for the organization, which has largely adopted the measure over time and restricted visits to the facilities.