Hospital affiliated long term care facility COVID-19 containment strategy by using prevalence testing and infection control best practices

•Long term care facility used serial point prevalence testing for SARS-CoV-2 on all residents and employees every 2 weeks to contain an outbreak.•Infection control best practices were put into place using multidisciplinary strike team approach that encompassed acute care physicians, leadership, engineering, and emergency medicine partners.•Cohort unit was established to isolate all exposed and new admissions to facility for 14 days in order to contain spread.