Nursing Home Location Most Affects Number of COVID Cases
Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, experts now say the spread of COVID-19 within communities that host nursing homes may be a better indicator of how the deadly virus…
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CVS and Walgreens under Fire for Slow Pace of Vaccination in Nursing Homes
The effort to vaccinate some of the country’s most vulnerable residents against covid-19 has been slowed by a federal program that sends retail pharmacists into nursing homes — accompanied by…
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NY to Reallocate Nursing Homes’ Unused COVID-19 Vaccines
New York is going to reallocate unused COVID-19 vaccines that had been earmarked for nursing homes — with tens of thousands of staffers at the facilities declining to get the…
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Information Sharing Practices Between US Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities to Support Care Transitions
In a US nationally representative survey that included responses from 471 hospital-SNF pairs about information sharing, SNFs reported that key information was often missing (functional, mental, and behavioral status as…
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WI Governor Announces DHS Assisted Living Facilities Will Begin Federal Pharmacy Partnership Program to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines
Gov. Tony Evers announced the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has officially activated Part B of the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, which provides COVID-19 vaccinations to Wisconsin…
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RI Doctor Loses License, Accused of ‘Recklessly’ Exposing Patients, Staff to COVID-19
Rhode Island has suspended the license of a North Providence doctor after an investigation concluded he “recklessly” exposed his patients and staff to COVID-19.
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Five Dead of Suspected Gas Leak in Italian Nursing Home
Five elderly residents of a nursing home near Rome have died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning and another five residents and two workers have been hospitalized in serious condition, Italian…
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Low COVID-Vaccine Acceptance in Staff at Staten Island Nursing Homes Alarms Officials
Nursing home staffers, front-line witnesses at the epicenter of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on Staten Island, currently are accepting the newly-distributed vaccines at far lower rates than residents in the…
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Some US nursing home residents face delays for COVID-19 vaccines despite extreme risk
A former Arkansas health official is sounding alarms about the pace of coronavirus vaccines being administered to residents of long-term care facilities under a US plan that puts major pharmacy…
Read More »Aid Runs Low for Key Pennsylvania Virus Containment Program
Wolf administration officials said Wednesday that Pennsylvania does not have the money to maintain a key feature of its response to coronavirus outbreaks in the state’s nursing homes, and are…
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