Connecticut Misdiagnosed Elderly Patients as COVID-19-Positive
The state’s Public Health Laboratory in Rocky Hill misdiagnosed 90 people as COVID-19-positive during the past month, a mishap that likely led healthy nursing home residents to be housed with…
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Texas Nursing Home COVID-19 Cases Jump 60% since July 1
The number of Texas nursing home residents testing positive for COVID-19 has increased by more than 60 percent since the start of July, according to state data, raising concerns that…
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Nursing home workers among those who received false-positive coronavirus test results
More than 100 Rhode Islanders who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month received false-positive results and were not actually infected with the novel coronavirus, the state Department of Health…
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Aide at Ohio Nursing Home Charged with Raping Elderly Dementia Resident
A Delaware County man is scheduled for a pretrial hearing Monday on charges that he raped an elderly dementia patient in a nursing home where he worked in March.
Read More »PA nursing home data used to track covid-19 deaths, cases riddled with errors
Data posted online this week by the Pennsylvania Department of Health shows 76,336 residents at an Elk County nursing home have died from covid-19.
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VA Hospital murder cases are far from over; Congress to weigh-in, too
On July 14, 46-year-old nursing assistant Reta Mays pleaded guilty to seven counts of second-degree murder, and one count of attempted murder.
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Virginia Adopts First-in-the-Nation Workplace Safety Standards for COVID-19 Pandemic
Governor Ralph Northam announced the adoption of statewide emergency workplace safety standards in response to the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. These first-in-the-nation safety rules will protect Virginia workers by mandating…
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Florida Nursing Homes See Infections Surge as Workers Spread Virus
Florida nursing homes and assisted-living facilities have seen a 74 percent increase in coronavirus cases in the past month despite efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis to isolate the elderly sick…
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Coronavirus is rapidly spreading in Texas nursing homes, state figures show
Younger Americans have been driving the recent coronavirus surge in Texas — but the virus is now also rapidly spreading in the state’s nursing homes, threatening elderly, frail residents who…
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A Florida Nurse Stole Patients’ Pain Meds and Took Them Herself
A registered nurse admitted checking out drugs for hospital patients, then taking them herself, the Florida Department of Health and Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said.
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