AOC Roasts Cuomo in Imbroglio Over Nursing Home Virus Data
Disputing reports that he withheld numbers about nursing home deaths from Covid-19, the New York governor reportedly threatened one state assemblyman for asking questions.
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‘Hug Tent’ Provides Safe Embraces at Colorado Elderly Home
Hugging her husband through 4 millimeters of plastic on Wednesday, Lynda Hartman got a small taste of what life was like before the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nursing Home Staffs Lag Behind Patient Vaccinations, CDC Reports
Nursing home workers have been getting Covid-19 vaccines at strikingly lower rates than the patients they tend to, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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NY Tally of Covid Nursing Home Deaths Was Off by Half, Top Prosecutor Says
New York may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths of nursing home residents by as much as 50%, the state’s attorney general said in a report released Thursday.
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Spanish Judge Orders Incapacitated Woman to Get Virus Vaccine
A judge in northwest Spain has overruled a family’s objections and decided to allow health authorities to administer a coronavirus vaccine to an incapacitated woman in a nursing home.
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In France, a Pandemic Dilemma Over Holiday Rights for Elders
Until Jan. 3, France is springing nursing home residents for the holidays. The aim is to alleviate some of the mental suffering and solitude of the pandemic by allowing multi-generation family reunions, which have been off-limits during repeated lockdowns for fear of relatives infecting each other.
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Report: Belgian Nursing Homes Failed Patients Amid Pandemic
Belgian authorities “abandoned” thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and did not seek hospital treatment for many who were infected, violating their human rights, Amnesty International said in an investigation published Monday.
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Two Texas families filed a lawsuit in state court challenging a ban on visitors at nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming state officials and the facilities are violating their rights to freely assemble with loved ones.
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Florida Governor Lifts Ban on Visits to Nursing Homes
At times holding back tears, Governor Ron DeSantis announced a lift of Florida’s ban on visitors to nursing homes and assisted living facilities on Tuesday, as the state inches toward normalcy six months into the coronavirus pandemic.
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A skilled nursing residential health care facility in New York claims the state’s health department improperly required it to accept admissions without regard for whether those residents were contagious with Covid-19.
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A federal court in New Jersey remanded to state court a complaint alleging certain rehabilitation centers and nursing homes failed to adequately protect residents from Covid-19. The claims are not preempted by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, as the defendants had claimed.
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Deaths at VA Homes Linked to Gaps in Federal Oversight
Big gaps in federal oversight of long-term care facilities for aging veterans may have contributed to rampant coronavirus infections and more than 200 deaths at state-run homes, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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Poll: 76% of Nursing Home Staff Say Covid-19 Has Spread to Co-Workers
Among certified nurse assistants and other health workers surveyed in a California Health Care Foundation poll released Friday, 76% reported confirmed or suspected Covid-19 cases among fellow staff at their facilities — adding to an already troubling account of how California nursing facilities have fared during the pandemic.
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A former nursing director sued Landmark of DesPlaines Rehabilitation and Nursing in Cook County Court, claiming it fired her for accurately reporting the number of Covid-19 patients it had, rather than the smaller number the nursing home wanted.
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A federal court in California denied California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a suit that accuses the state of failing to enforce Department of Health Care Services orders requiring nursing homes to readmit patients who have been “dumped” in a hospital.
Read moreWhite House Goal on Nursing Homes Tests Unmet
Nearly two weeks ago the White House urged governors to ensure that every nursing home resident and staff member be tested for the coronavirus within 14 days.
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Drop in Vaccinations Raises Alarms in Virus-Consumed NYC
MANHATTAN (CN) — Vaccination rates in New York City have dropped precipitously in the pandemic era, a trend that does
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Virus Proving Especially Deadly in LA County Nursing Homes
Los Angeles County hit another grim milestone Thursday with more than half of all Covid-19 deaths reported in the county occurring in communal settings like nursing homes.
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National Guard Deployed to Disinfect Texas Nursing Homes
Teams of disinfectant-toting Texas National Guard troops are fanning out across the state to fight Covid-19 in the trenches, at nursing homes on the frontlines of the battle against the virus.
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Phoenix Newspapers (The Arizona Republic) et al. sued the Arizona Department of Health Services for public records that show the number of Covid-19 cases in nursing institutions and their transfers to and from Arizona hospitals, in Maricopa County Court.
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