All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2020 // Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs may be one of the factors contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities.According to a new study published in Medical Care...
Dec 10 2020 // Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs may be one of the factors contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities.According to a new study published in Medical Care...
Dec 8 2020 // Residents in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities will be the first to get a coronavirus vaccine when Florida begins receiving it later this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.DeSantis’ priorities, announced in in...
Dec 8 2020 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. will be the carrier providing insurance coverage for AmWINS Program Underwriters’ (APU) Long-Term Care Facilities program, effective January 1, 2021.The Long-Term Care...
Dec 3 2020 // A Kansas City-area nursing home has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it paid female nurses less than male nurses, federal authorities say.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that Edgewood...
Dec 2 2020 // CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 2, 2020) – AmWINS Program Underwriters (“APU”) today announced a new carrier partnership to provide insurance solutions for APU’s Long-Term Care Facilities program, effective...
Dec 2 2020 // A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13 to 1 to recommend that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be first in line to receive...
Nov 30 2020 // A lawsuit against a long-term care facility in Whitefish, Mont., has been amended to add claims that it was part of a multi-state network of facilities that enriched corporate owners while residents received negligent...
Nov 16 2020 // Property/casualty insurance for senior living facilities has taken a hit this year. The insurance market has been hardening for the last year or two, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought on a wave of new challenges that has...
Nov 16 2020 // Assisted living facilities provide a necessary service to our aging population, but operating them comes with risks. When you consider that they are designed to provide care for our loved ones in ways that many of us are...
Nov 10 2020 // Despite Trump administration efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest onslaught of COVID-19.An analysis of federal data...
Oct 27 2020 // A long-term care facility in Montana has been sued after health officials said its staff was negligent and allowed the coronavirus to spread through the facility in Whitefish earlier this year.The lawsuit has been filed by...
Oct 26 2020 // Scott Benefit Services, a division of Scott Insurance, will expand its Senior Living Practice into additional markets in the Southeast region.The Senior Living Practice, led by Pim Jager, vice president and branch leader...
Oct 16 2020 // The aftereffects of 2017’s Hurricane Irma appear to have killed more than 400 senior residents of Florida nursing homes, a new university study shows.Researchers at the University of South Florida and Brown...
Sep 22 2020 // More than 40% of the deaths linked to the coronavirus in Nebraska have been at nursing homes, but the overall rate of deaths in the state’s nursing homes has remained relatively low compared with national figures.A...
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them.The Centers for Disease Control and...
Aug 26 2020 // Nursing homes in the United States will now be required to test staff for COVID-19 and offer testing to residents, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Tuesday.The new rules also mandate nursing...
Aug 20 2020 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed into law sweeping protections for businesses, schools and nursing homes against coronavirus lawsuits.Lee on Monday touted the legislation as “historic” and argued the law...
Aug 17 2020 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday halted nursing home visits as both confirmed cases and deaths from the new coronavirus continue to surge.Justice said at a news conference that there are virus outbreaks...
Aug 12 2020 // As Louisiana tries to protect vulnerable nursing home residents from coronavirus outbreaks, the facilities still have a significant source of risk for new infections. Hundreds of employees coming and going each day have...