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.
Read moreVirus Records
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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Long-Term Care Homes Seek Immunity From Lawsuits
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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Virus Outbreak Slams Town as Texas Reopens
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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Virus Kills 68 at US Veterans’ Home
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 moreElder Financial Abuse
The 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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California Covid Cases Top 40,000 as LA County Sees 1,000 New Cases Daily
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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Cuomo Rips Into Trump: Pass Bucks, Not the Buck
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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Virus Kills 45 at One Virginia Care Home
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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Nursing Home at Epicenter of Washington State Virus Outbreak Sued
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 moreNursing Home Deaths Soar Past 3,300 in Alarming Surge
More 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 Arrives With US Paralyzed
Census 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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More Than 50 Infected at California Nursing Home
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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Second Coronavirus Death in US, Near Seattle
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.
Read moreMedicare Fraud
The Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of the U.S. government against a company that provided clinical testing services for nursing home residents, finding that the company obtained millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements for miles their technicians did not actually travel.
Read moreCalifornia Public Health Agency Can’t Duck Federal Lawsuit
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that California’s byzantine public health bureaucracy must face a lawsuit by elderly Medi-Cal patients claiming it fails to enforce laws prohibiting nursing homes from dumping them into hospitals to free up space for more profitable residents.
Read moreJudge Guts Key Arbitration Waiver in Nursing Home Workers’ Suit
Citing binding precedent, a federal judge tossed part of an arbitration agreement that required nursing home employees suing for unpaid wages to give up their right to seek civil penalties under the Private Attorneys General Act, a law that deputizes private citizens to enforce California’s strict labor codes.
Read morePanel Takes Up Dispute Over Unlicensed Nursing Homes
An attorney for one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to keep in federal court a conspiracy and fraud class action accusing the company of selling nursing homes with invalid licenses.
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