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The Mills administration said Tuesday that it is “seriously considering” a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for Maine healthcare workers, making the announcement the day after two hospitals reported outbreaks and six…

POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is a medical order form used to document preferences about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), medical interventions such as hospitalization, care in the intensive care unit,…

Rescue crews took two people to the hospital after their car crashed into an assisted living facility in Northwest Miami-Dade, igniting a fire that has left the home uninhabitable.

Seven residents of a nursing home in Belgium have died after being infected with a lineage of the coronavirus first detected in Colombia despite being fully vaccinated, the virology team…

As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the pandemic’s toll on older adults — the age group hit…

An 18-year-old man is charged with attempted first-degree murder in the attack of a nurse at the Elgin Mental Health Center.

A nurse at Lowell General Hospital’s Saints Campus suffered a brain bleed and a broken finger after a patient struck her with a fire extinguisher while her back was turned…

In late spring, the 142 nursing homes operated by the Good Samaritan Society hit a milestone that was unthinkable just four months earlier: Zero cases of Covid-19 across the whole…

The number of COVID outbreaks at New Jersey nursing homes more than doubled over the past two weeks, including one at the devastated Paramus Veterans Memorial Home that has placed…