CA nursing facility fined nearly $60,000 for COVID-19 safety violations
A skilled nursing facility in Fremont has racked up nearly $60,000 in penalties from the state for not properly protecting its workers from COVID-19 during the pandemic.
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CT Governor Ends Legal Immunity for Nursing Homes, Hospitals
Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday he will end legal immunity for nursing homes and hospitals beginning March 1, nearly a year after he imposed the order shielding those facilities from…
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Connecticut Mulling Whether Medical Assistants Can Give Shot
Connecticut legislators were urged Monday to pass a bill that would allow certified medical assistants to perform vaccinations, with the Connecticut Hospital Association noting the “difficult undertaking of vaccinating every…
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Dialysis patients at nearly 4 times the risk for COVID death
Patients undergoing long-term dialysis were more than five times likelier to be infected with COVID-19 and nearly four times as likely to die than the general population, suggesting that they…
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ND Man Who Left Nursing Home Found Safe in Ice House
A 70-year-old Bismarck man with dementia who walked away from a long-term care facility was found safe Thursday after spending the night in an ice fishing house 5 miles north…
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Vaccine Clinics in Nursing Homes Reduce COVID-19 Transmission by 48% within Three Weeks, Study Finds
A new study on COVID-19 among nursing home residents and staff found that the cases decreased at a faster rate among both groups after the first vaccine clinic took place…
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95-Year-Old Colorado Assisted Living Resident Admits Shooting Worker
The 95-year-old man accused of killing a maintenance worker at his nursing home in Lafayette on Wednesday admitted to police that he shot the victim, according to an arrest warrant…
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Indiana Bill Would Require Exception to Nursing Home Visitor Bans, Despite Pandemic
There’s another bill to limit some of the state’s anti-COVID restrictions — but this one has the state health department’s support.
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Kansas Governor Laura Kelly Announces Medicaid Expansion Bill Funded by Medical Marijuana
Governor Laura Kelly announced legislation on February 1, 2021, to expand Medicaid (Kancare) and provide health insurance for 165,000 Kansans. The legislation also establishes a regulatory framework to make Kansas…
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Some vaccines given at 5 Ohio nursing homes may not have been kept at proper temperature
Some residents at five long-term care facilities in Northeast Ohio will have to be revaccinated after it was determined that some doses of COVID vaccine may not have been stored…
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