Outdoor Visitations Now Allowed at Massachusetts Nursing Homes
Starting June 3, 2020 visitor restrictions are being eased to allow family and friends of residents in Massachusetts nursing homes, rest homes, and assisted living facilities to begin visiting in…
Read More »Nursing Homes with Infection Control Violations Face Increase in Penalties
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) announced June 1, 2020 that as of mid-May nearly 26,000 residents in nursing homes…
Read More »Temporary Aides Used in Nursing Homes to Address Staffing Shortages
In March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) waived the minimum 75-hour training requirements for certified nurse aides to address “potential staffing shortages” in nursing homes related to…
Read More »Most NYC Nursing Homes Hit Hard by COVID-19 Found by DOH Totally Compliant with CMS Infection Control Guidelines
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) recently reported that surveys of more than half of New York City’s nursing homes (many with substantial COVID-19 deaths) were found to…
Read More »Nursing Home Notifies Family of Resident’s COVID-19 Positive Test — Funeral Home Calls the Same Day
The family of a New York nursing home resident who had lived in the facility for about eight years reported they were shocked over her death, and that they were…
Read More »Sanctioned Pennsylvania Nursing Homes Assessed $93K in Civil Money Penalties
The Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA-DOH) recently announced that since February, surveyors conducted 1,473 inspections of Pennsylvania’s almost 700 nursing homes, including 907 complaint investigations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These…
Read More »Residents’ Advocates Allege Pre-existing Problems within Ohio Nursing Homes before COVID-19 Contributed to Devastating Impact
The susceptibility of nursing home residents to highly infectious COVID-19, difficulty in identifying asymptomatic carriers, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), and a slow response to testing of residents and…
Read More »COVID-19 Crisis Puts Nursing Homes in the Spotlight
Doctors, researchers, and advocates working in the field of long-term care medicine recently expressed their concerns about the devastation of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities—more than 34,000 deaths of residents…
Read More »Connecticut DOH Reports Infection Control Problems with COVID-19 at 20 Nursing Homes
After working with the National Guard and inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make more than 200 unannounced visits to nursing homes throughout the state,…
Read More »Pennsylvania’s Long-Term Care Facilities Receiving Assistance from the National Guard to Deal with COVID-19
In a recent news conference, Pennsylvania’s governor highlighted the work that the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) and the National Guard are doing to provide relief for nursing home staff….
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