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A panel appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed draft recommendations to “strongly encourage access” and to “limit barriers to visitation” for two groups: “essential caregivers” and “compassionate visitors.”

A Wills Point nurse claims she got COVID-19 while working at an assisted living facility, and now she’s fighting back in court.

CMS’s Nursing Home Compare website provides information on nursing homes that participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs.

This cohort study including 17 nursing homes with staff self-confinement and 9513 nursing homes in a national survey found that nursing homes with staff self-confinement experienced lower mortality related to COVID-19

Nine people with the virus died over the past week in a single nursing home in eastern France, and other French care homes are shutting their doors as the country…

New York hospitals and nursing homes would need to hire nearly 70,000 additional nurses and other workers to meet mandated staffing levels under a state bill seeking to improve safety…

A majority of states — including Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio — don’t require state inspectors to be tested for COVID-19 before entering nursing homes, the Wall Street Journal reported.

After seeing an increase in deaths tied to outbreaks in nursing homes across the state, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said visitations to nursing homes would need to stop once again.

Investigations into how long-term care facilities in New York and Connecticut handled the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted a major break in the supply chain for safety equipment.