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Congress recently passed a spending bill to provide $8.3 billion to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The bill allows the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced some actions that healthcare providers, including nursing homes, need to take immediately to confront the threat of the coronavirus (COVID-19)…

According to a recent report from the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, for about 80% of the persons infected with the coronavirus, the effects being tracked are mild. However, the…

Discovery of a carbon monoxide leak recently forced residents in a New York nursing home to be evacuated, in the early morning 3-degree bitter-cold temperature, to a hospital located next…

A Tennessee healthcare provider has agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false…

An Iowa nursing home has been placed on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Special Focus Facilities list. Official records indicate that the facility has had a greater…

Two Pennsylvania residents of the same last name were recently arrested for stealing $15,000 from a woman in a nursing home. The pair’s scheme involved telling the victim that she…

A 47-year-old Texas man, charged with being a serial killer and indicted in the murder and robbery of 12 nursing home residents in northern Texas, was recently indicted for capital…

Local police recently arrested and booked a man after he threatened to blow up the nursing home where he had worked before being fired for assaulting another employee. According to…

The daughter of a resident in a Michigan nursing home recently pleaded no contest in the Circuit Court to vulnerable adult abuse in the third degree. The woman was accused…