All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2020 // New Hampshire health and fire safety officials will spend the next two weeks investigating whether ventilation systems have contributed to coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes, Gov. Chris Sununu said Tuesday.More than 30...
Jul 29 2020 // The coronavirus transformed Florida’s nursing homes into closely guarded fortresses beginning in March, with the state banning family visits, isolating infected residents in separate wings and now requiring staff be...
Jul 27 2020 // Coronavirus cases at an East Tennessee nursing home have nearly doubled in less than a week, officials said.The Christian Care Center in Bristol reported 92 cases on Wednesday, up from 51 cases on Friday, Director Jennifer...
Jul 24 2020 // An Ohio healthcare company has been cited by federal officials for violating respiratory protection standards.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited OHNH EMP LLC...
Jul 20 2020 // At least 40% of all coronavirus deaths in the U.S. are from nursing home residents and caregivers. States like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania report an astounding 62% to 65% of their COVID-19 deaths from nursing homes and...
Jul 16 2020 // A New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) report says the coronavirus outbreak that has afflicted nursing homes throughout the state may have resulted from staff and visitors unknowingly infecting residents early in...
Jul 15 2020 // A Los Angeles company that runs 27 nursing homes has agreed to pay $16.7 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.Longwood Management Corp. didn’t acknowledge any...
Jul 15 2020 // A mask mandate and other restrictions took effect Monday in 13 of Mississippi’s 82 counties as the state continues to see a rapid increase in cases of the new coronavirus, including a steady rise in hospital...
Jul 13 2020 // A Northern California nursing home hit hard by a deadly coronavirus outbreak is a highly rated facility. But even with a good track record, it wasn’t prepared to combat the coronavirus when it arrived.At least 17...
Jul 10 2020 // The coronavirus pandemic has made it even harder for senior-care centers in the United States to find or afford standard liability insurance, with rates soaring by as much as 300%, insurance brokers said.Residential care...
Jul 6 2020 // From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of Covid-19 and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard...
Jul 2 2020 // All North Carolinians living and working in nursing homes will soon receive a one-time coronavirus test, the state announced Tuesday.Mandy Cohen, the state’s top public health official, said the state’s effort...
Jun 24 2020 // After years of failed attempts, advocates for nursing home residents this year won approval of legislation that allows families to install surveillance cameras in residents’ rooms.The measure, backers say, will help...
Jun 22 2020 // Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data released Thursday.As...
Jun 22 2020 // A nursing home owned by Life Care Centers of America Inc. has fired one nurse and banned another from the premises after the two were quoted in a Reuters investigation detailing horrific conditions, a staff exodus and a...
Jun 15 2020 // The Tennessee Senate advanced legislation Thursday that would provide nursing homes, grocery stores and other businesses sweeping protections from coronavirus lawsuits.The measure is similar to the growing trend going on...
Jun 11 2020 // Iowa Republican legislators are fast-tracking a bill that would give meatpacking plants, nursing homes and other businesses broad immunity from coronavirus lawsuits despite criticism that it would also enable them to...
Jun 9 2020 // More than 60% of Idaho’s coronavirus-related deaths are among residents of long-term care facilities like nursing homes, according to numbers released by the state on Friday.The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare...
Jun 4 2020 // The Mississippi State Department of Health said Tuesday that it will start releasing the names of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities where people have tested positive for the new coronavirus.The action comes...
Jun 3 2020 // A second resident of a Wyoming nursing home has died of the coronavirus. The older man had been hospitalized and was a resident of a Washakie County long-term care facility where testing identified 12 cases among residents...