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A fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a Rockland County, N.Y. nursing home, killing one resident and leaving a firefighter missing and over one hundred other residents displaced.

A nursing home in rural Maine has found a new partner after a difficult few weeks battling COVID-19 after months fighting the pandemic, which has killed more than a dozen of its residents. Nursing and medical students from the University of New England gained real-world experience they otherwise would not have had during the pandemic while the nursing home would...

A nursing home in Maine has found a new partner, the University of New England, after a difficult few weeks battling COVID-19.

A nursing home in New Hampshire is dealing with a coronavirus outbreak that’s reached more than 90% of its elderly residents and is now turning deadly. Martha Ilsley, the acting administrator at Hanover Terrace Health and Rehab in Hanover, said they’ve done everything possible to keep COVID at bay, but the virus got in late last month, and now...

At a New Hampshire nursing home, a coronavirus outbreak has infected more than 90% of residents.

Six residents have died in the past week at an assisted living facility in Andover, Massachusetts, officials confirmed. At Atria Marland Place, 50 residents and 21 employees have tested positive since Oct. 27 — a total of 71 cases. “Our thoughts are with their families during this difficult time,” Regional Vice President Kymberly Codair said in a statement. “At Atria…

Six residents have died in the past week at an assisted living facility in Andover, officials confirmed. At Atria Marland Place, 50 residents and 21 employees have tested positive since Oct. 27 – a total of 71 cases.

As more than 90,000 of America’s long-term care residents have died in the coronavirus pandemic, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of death separate from the virus has quietly claimed tens of thousands more, often because overburdened workers haven’t been able to give them the care they need

All 62 residents of a Kansas nursing home have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 10 have died, health officials said. One resident is hospitalized, and the rest are being quarantined, NBC News reports.

The Maine pastor who presided over an East Millinocket wedding whose crowded reception has been linked to more than 145 virus cases and at least three deaths has hired a lawyer known nationally for defending the religious rights of churches. The Portland Press Herald reports Todd Bell of the Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford held in-person services on Sunday, but…

Federal and state investigators raided a Pennsylvania nursing home Thursday where hundreds of residents and staff members tested positive for coronavirus and dozens have died, authorities said. NBC News reports investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general’s office and other agencies executed the search warrant at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center northeast of Pittsburgh, said...

The city of Quincy, Massachusetts, fined a wedding venue on Saturday for violating limits on gatherings. The rules are intended to cut down the spread of the coronavirus. The Neighborhood Club of Quincy received a $300 fine, Quincy’s Health Department said Sunday. A spokesperson for the club said it was hosting an outdoor wedding when rain and thunder motivated the…

Almost three weeks after a wedding reception in rural Maine, the number of COVID-19 cases associated with a wedding and reception has now reached 87. Those who contracted the virus and one who died had attended a wedding Aug. 7 at the Tri-Town Baptist Church in East Millinocket and a reception at The Big Moose Inn in Millinocket, Maine Center…

Almost three weeks later, the number of COVID-19 cases associated with a Maine wedding reception has increased.

A Montana memory care facility that didn’t carry out free coronavirus testing on its residents is reeling from an outbreak that has infected nearly everyone who lives there.

As his “Nana” battled COVID-19, endurance athlete Corey Cappelloni ran 218 miles from Washington, D

Attorney General Maura Healey is investigating a Littleton nursing home that came under fire for its coronavirus response, for which they received a threatening letter last month. “My office is investigating Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak at the facility to determine if legal action is warranted,” Healey said in a statement. “We owe...

Venessa Hinchcliffe never thought she’d say goodbye to her grandmother over FaceTime. “When I saw her on the iPad…that look will haunt me forever,” Hinchcliffe said. The mother of two from Plymouth, Massachusetts, said her 80-year-old grandmother, Francella McFarlane of Brockton, was quarantined and alone before she died of the new coronavirus in a nursing home more than two...

A nursing home got some unusual visitors when a group of llamas visited.

A federal judge released a Massachusetts man on Wednesday to home confinement after he was accused of trying to set fire to a Jewish-sponsored assisted living center. Judge Katherine Robertson released John Michael Rathbun, 36, shortly after he was charged with attempted arson. The judge’s decision garnered a written objection from Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Breslow, who wrote that Robertson’s...