As Deaths Rise, NJ Retains Consultants to Examine Nursing Home Coronavirus Crisis
Protective masks and other safety equipment remains in critically short supply at dozens of New Jersey nursing homes, as state officials announced plans to bring in outside consultants to look…
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Gov. Wolf Signs Executive Order to Provide Civil Immunity for Healthcare Providers
Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order to afford healthcare practitioners protection against liability for good faith actions taken in response to the call to supplement the healthcare provider workforce…
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NJ Clamps down on Nursing Homes as Coronavirus Deaths Spiral Up
New Jersey officials said on Tuesday that they’re clamping down on nursing homes as long -term care facility deaths continue to spiral upward amid the coronavirus crisis, and the National…
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Elderly Man Dies, Wife Critically Hurt in Bronx Nursing Home Fire
An elderly man died and his wife was critically hurt when a fire ripped through their Bronx nursing home, officials said Sunday.
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How a Nursing Home in France Stopped Coronavirus from Killing Elderly in Its Care
As the coronavirus scythed through nursing homes, cutting a deadly path, Valerie Martin vowed to herself that the story would be different in the home she runs in France.
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Study: Asymptomatic Coronavirus Patients May Have Infected Nursing Homes
Asymptomatic coronavirus patients may have started the virus’s rampage on nursing homes.
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OSHA Investigating Death of Georgia Nurse
Federal workplace-safety regulators are investigating the death of a nurse who may have contracted COVID-19 while treating patients at Piedmont Henry Hospital.
Read More »Fraud Suits, DOJ Probes Await Nursing Homes after Virus Abates
Mounting coronavirus infections and deaths at U.S. nursing homes will spur a storm of private litigation under a federal anti-fraud statute and possible criminal investigations by a Justice Department eager…
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Woman Says Her Mother Starved to Death at New York Nursing Home
Maxine J. Schwartz, an East Aurora nursing home resident who had dementia, would only eat if her daughter was there to encourage her.
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Nearly 70 Dead in ‘Horrific’ Outbreak at Veterans’ Home
Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the…
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