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.
Read moreA 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 moreNearly 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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MANHATTAN (CN) — Vaccination rates in New York City have dropped precipitously in the pandemic era, a trend that does
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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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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.
Read morePhoenix 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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Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s long-term homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them immunity from claims of inadequate care.
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Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas’ reopening on Friday. Only a handful of the 50,000 residents here, right on the border with Oklahoma, had tested positive for the coronavirus. None had died.
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Nearly 70 residents have died of coronavirus at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the nation.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit reversed the denial of Brookdale Senior Living’s motion to compel a resident to arbitrate his elder financial abuse, Consumer Legal Remedies Act, and California Business and Professions Code claims, finding they are founded on a residency agreement. Brookdale operates more than 800 senior living and retirement communities in the U.S.
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Los Angeles County is seeing 1,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus daily and over a third of all Covid-related deaths in the county came from places like nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, health officials reported Friday.
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Noting that the goal of reopening the economy is one the state and federal government share, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo closed out the week with a pithy message for the White House.
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Ronald Mitchell worried about his mother’s care at a suburban Richmond nursing home long before she was swept up in one of the nation’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks.
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The daughter of a Covid-19 victim has sued the owners and operators of a Seattle-area nursing home where her mother lived, claiming they failed to quarantine residents and staff, admitted new residents and allowed a Mardi Gras party at the facility despite being on alert for the virus.
Read moreMore than 3,300 deaths nationwide have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, an alarming rise in just the past two weeks, according to the latest count by The Associated Press.
Read moreCensus Day — the date used to establish where a person lives for the once-a-decade count — arrived Wednesday with a nation nearly paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic. But census officials vowed the job would be completed by its year-end deadline.
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A Southern California nursing home has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with more than 50 residents infected — a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state may peak more slowly than expected.
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A second person has died from the coronavirus in Washington state, health officials said Sunday night — a man in his 70s from a nursing facility near Seattle where dozens of people were sick and have been tested for the virus.
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