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New partnership seeks to boost nursing home safety
Photo: Scouse Smurf via Flickr A new partnership will provide free training and mentorship to nursing homes across the country to improve evidence-based infection prevention and safety practices. The...
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As nursing home death and infection rates rise, how is isolation affecting...
Photo: SalFalko via Flickr As the U.S. enters what experts predict may be the most severe months yet of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of infections and deaths among residents and workers in nursing...
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Does care suffer as private equity firms buy struggling nursing homes?
Photo: Gilbert Mercier via Flickr Private equity firms are in the business of making money. On the surface, there is nothing wrong with that. However, a disturbing story in The Washington Post alleges...
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Study shows racial differences in COVID-19 nursing home deaths
Photo: Prachatai via Flickr Racial disparities are glaringly obvious when examining COVID-19 caseloads, hospitalizations and deaths. A new study in JAMA Open looks at how these inequalities in the...
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Is the Biden administration’s plan to revamp nursing home standards enough?
Photo by Ulrich Joho via Flickr. It took a pandemic and tens of thousands of deaths before most people became aware of just how bad circumstances were in many U.S. nursing homes. Long-term care...
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An uptick in nursing home COVID deaths, cases
Photo by Maryland GovPics via Flickr. COVID-related nursing home cases and deaths are on the rise again, according to recently published data on AARP’s COVID-19 dashboard. And while these rates are...
View ArticleU.S. News & World Report nursing home ratings poke holes in CMS ratings
Photo by Wellness Gallery Catalyst Foundation: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-people-woman-girl-12085633/ U.S. News & World Report recently released its 2022-2023 nursing home ratings, which...
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Report shows many nursing home violations not have been publicly reported
Photo by Ulrich Joho via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) As many as 10,000 nursing homes may have deficiencies unreported or may have been inaccurately described by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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Parsing the deadly problem of low vaccination rates in nursing homes
Nearly four years into the pandemic, vaccine uptake for COVID, RSV and even influenza remain very low among nursing home residents and staff, according to recent CDC MMWR data. Some 600 nursing home...
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Parsing the deadly problem of low vaccination rates in nursing homes
Nearly four years into the pandemic, vaccine uptake for COVID, RSV and even influenza remain very low among nursing home residents and staff, according to recent CDC MMWR data. Some 600 nursing home...
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