nursing homes

Nursing home residents are among the Americans getting $1,200 checks as part of the U.S. plan to revive the economy

A report from Senate Democrats finds that the Trump administration was slow to comprehend the scale of COVID-19’s impact on nursing homes and a disjointed federal response compounded the devastating toll.

Two New England senators are pressing the federal government to explain its plan to supply nursing homes with personal protective gear after reports surfaced that some equipment supplied by FEMA was inadequate or defective. In a letter sent last week to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Elizabeth Warren...

Visitation bans at nursing homes have renewed interest in legislation that would allow families to put remote cameras inside the facilities to help see how loved ones are doing. Before the pandemic, cameras were seen as a way to identify elder abuse and neglect. But now, many hope they could bring comfort after visitation bans imposed to stem the devastating...

A reckoning is beginning in France over the country’s 14,000 COVID-19 deaths among care home residents, a cataclysm that scythed through the generation that endured World War II.

Nursing homes residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has announced limited in-person visits to nursing homes and other care facilities can resume in time for Father’s Day this weekend.

A harrowing blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents

As COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes continue to accumulate at shocking rates, The New York Times spoke to a number of nursing home caregivers on their daily struggles, frustrations caring for high-risk patients.

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country. They say shipments have fallen short of what was promised during a White House press briefing at the end of April. Some local nursing homes got shipments of supplies from the federal government…

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically-needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country.

As nursing homes across Massachusetts continue to grapple with the virus, many still don’t have a full roster of employees, according to new federal data, potentially compounding the challenges they face during the pandemic

Massachusetts nursing homes are among the hardest hit by the new coronavirus in the country, according to new federal data. Many are short-staffed as they struggle to keep residents safe.

When the coronavirus erupted at a nursing home near Seattle in late February, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly descended. They soon discovered two factors fueling the virus’ spread: Nurses were working while sick. And some of those sick nurses were working at other nursing homes. In the months since then, between a quarter and…

More than two months after the staff of Shady Oaks Assisted Living in Bristol, Connecticut, moved into the home at the peak of the coronavirus surge to keep the residents isolated from illness, most of the caregivers will leave for the first time this weekend. The home, according to its owner, remains COVID-free.

Staff at the Holden Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center watched with growing dread earlier this year as coronavirus outbreaks ravaged long-term care facilities across the country. Soon, they knew, it would come their way. Administrator Tara D’Andrea describes Holden Rehab as a little city – one she hoped to make a fortress. The first week of March, the 123-bed facility…

Massachusetts on Thursday released data about coronavirus cases in long-term-care facilities across the state, shedding light for the first time on how hard the outbreak is hitting those facilities. The data released by the Department of Public Health included the number of overall coronavirus cases and deaths connected to nursing homes and facilities that care for the disabled. The data…

The Trump administration is not requiring nursing homes to provide data on COVID-19 deaths and cases that occurred prior to May 6, according to a public government document, limiting the accuracy of the federal data collection effort to measure the impact of the pandemic on older Americans. The government encourages nursing homes to provide the data from before May 6, but...

As millions of Americans begin receiving stimulus checks under the CARES Act, the Federal Trade Commission is now warning residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities to keep a close eye on their money. “A lot of nursing homes and assisted living facilities that are accepting Medicaid patients were taking the stimulus checks of their patients, thinking this was…

The Federal Trade Commission is warning residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities to keep a close eye on their money after complaints that stimulus checks have reportedly been taken.