Texas leaders urge nursing facilities to make use of monoclonal antibody therapies
Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of State Health Services are alerting nursing facilities to the availability of monoclonal antibody therapies that can be used to treat residents who…
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States Could Do More to Oversee Spending and Contain Medicaid Costs for Specialty Drugs
States reported limited oversight of their Medicaid managed care organizations’ (MCO) management of specialty drug categorization and spending. Twenty-four States reported that they were not aware of all the cost…
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Wisconsin to Expand Testing for Assisted Living Facilities
Governor Tony Evers and the Department of Health Services (DHS) announced expanded testing for Wisconsin’s assisted living facilities. The new program allows community-based residential facilities and adult family homes to…
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West Virginia May Complete Nursing Home Vaccinations Even Sooner Than Expected
West Virginia is aiming to complete vaccinations at long-term care facilities even sooner than originally anticipated, possibly by this coming Monday.
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Pennsylvania County to Pay Nursing Home Employees $750 to Get Vaccinated
A Lehigh Valley county plans to pay $750 to employees at one it its nursing homes as a way of encouraging them to get immunized against the coronavirus.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Shipment Returned after ‘Anomaly’ Causes Storage Temperature to Fall
Several thousands of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had to be returned to Pfizer due to an “anomaly” that caused storage temperatures to plunge during shipment, officials said Wednesday.
Read More »Wearing a Used Mask Could Be Worse Than No Mask Amid COVID-19: Study
A new three-layer surgical mask is 65 percent efficient in filtering particles in the air — but when used, that number drops to 25 percent, according to the study published…
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Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction after Pfizer’s Vaccine
A healthcare worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday and remained hospitalized on Wednesday morning under observation.
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Upscale Home for Dementia Patients Sued over Deaths in COVID-19 Outbreak
Relatives of three residents and a nurse who died following a coronavirus outbreak at an upscale Westside care facility for dementia patients are suing the home, alleging its owners placed…
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Lawmakers Are Preparing for another Push to Eliminate CT’s Religious Exemption from Vaccines.
Last February, in the early weeks of Connecticut’s legislative session, lawmakers intent on erasing the state’s religious exemption from mandatory vaccinations quickly rolled out a draft of their proposal, called…
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