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For the first time in nearly five months, visitors will be allowed in Texas nursing homes on a limited basis, state health officials announced August 6, reversing a policy intended to keep the state’s most vulnerable populations safe from a pandemic that has proved especially deadly for older people.

New Jersey has begun implementing a handful of expert recommendations to help nursing homes better respond to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, state officials said, but they also have acknowledged that…

Missouri City officials received notice from Fort Bend County on Aug. 5 that 19 people at Paradigm at First Colony Nursing Home died from the coronavirus, the city said in…

FEMA is being accused of sending faulty personal protective equipment to nursing home facilities across the country.

As COVID-19 spread across Texas in March, it became clear that the virus would batter the state’s 1,200 or so nursing homes, where some of the most vulnerable Texans were…

The Alabama Department of Public Health reported that 3,968 residents of Alabama long-term care facilities have tested positive for the coronavirus since March, and the rate of infections in long-term…

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 at Blue Ridge Therapy Connection didn’t surprise one man who says he had trouble this spring getting appropriate care for his mother, a resident there,…

An Alabama family says a Phenix City nursing home failed to inform them in a timely manner about the deteriorating health of their patriarch, who ultimately died of coronavirus complications…

New Hampshire health and fire safety officials will spend the next two weeks investigating whether ventilation systems have contributed to coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes, Gov. Chris Sununu said July…