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Diesel fuel leaking from a storage tank at a Washington, Illinois senior care facility forced its partial evacuation after Christmas and has polluted its area’s grounds, city storm sewers, and…

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced sweeping nursing home reform legislation to increase transparency, hold nursing home operators accountable for misconduct and help ensure facilities are prioritizing patient care over profits…

Power and water outages across Texas have spawned a fresh crisis for long-term-care facilities still reeling from COVID and underscored longstanding weaknesses in these facilities’ emergency planning.

The Wolf Administration provided an update on Pennsylvania’s progress administering COVID-19 vaccines to residents and staff of long-term and congregate care facilities eligible in Phase 1A. To date, more than…

After a deadly blast of winter weather overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions of Texans without power, hospitals in the state are also facing the additional stress of water…

Nursing home residents were evacuated from a Pennsylvania facility Wednesday night due to heavy smoke from a fire caused by electrical issues with a washer/dryer unit.

To date, 35% of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home populations, compared with 14% in Japan.

One man is in serious condition and four residents and five staff from a Texas nursing home were taken to the hospital after a structure fire early Tuesday afternoon.

After the Senate started moving forward with the controversial issue, a House committee this week will take up a bill that would help shield nursing homes, hospitals, and physicians from…