nursing homes

A COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing center in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, has killed 20 residents. Most of the deaths at John Knox Village Care Center occurred in the past six weeks, according to the facility.

The Justice Department sent letters to governors of New York and three other Democratic-led states seeking data on whether they violated federal law by ordering public nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients from hospitals.

The Department of Public Health is overhauling how it regulates nursing homes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 3,500 elderly residents in skilled nursing facilities across California.

A new report says COVID-19 cases in U.S. nursing homes jumped nearly 80% earlier this summer, driven by rampant spread across the South and much of the West

The Department of Public Health is overhauling how it regulates nursing homes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 3,500 elderly residents in skilled nursing facilities across California. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

An East Bay family is speaking out about the lonely death of a loved one at a Walnut Creek nursing home in the hopes of preventing it from happening to another family.

An East Bay family is speaking out about the lonely death of a loved one at a Walnut Creek nursing home, hoping to prevent it from happening to another family. Jean Elle reports.

President Donald Trump says his administration will provide another $5 billion to help nursing homes battle COVID-19.

Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of AHCA/NCAL speaks to the devastating impact Covid-19 continues to have at long-term care nursing facilities across the country as they run low on staff and PPE.

Younger Americans have been driving the recent coronavirus surge in Texas — but the virus is now also rapidly spreading in the state’s nursing homes, threatening elderly, frail residents who are most at risk of serious illness and death. Across Texas, nearly 1,000 new infections of nursing home residents were reported in the week ending Friday, July 10, NBC News found in…

For months, families have pined to see their loved ones who live in California’s skilled nursing facilities, which have been shut down to outside visitors to keep the coronavirus from spreading. California health authorities recently issued guidance for visits to resume, but few are happening as infection rates surge in many communities. Facilities are being cautious after many suffered...

Nursing home residents are among the Americans getting $1,200 checks as part of the U.S. plan to revive the economy

A report from Senate Democrats finds that the Trump administration was slow to comprehend the scale of COVID-19’s impact on nursing homes and a disjointed federal response compounded the devastating toll.

A reckoning is beginning in France over the country’s 14,000 COVID-19 deaths among care home residents, a cataclysm that scythed through the generation that endured World War II.

Nursing homes residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths

A harrowing blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents

As COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes continue to accumulate at shocking rates, The New York Times spoke to a number of nursing home caregivers on their daily struggles, frustrations caring for high-risk patients.

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country. They say shipments have fallen short of what was promised during a White House press briefing at the end of April. Some local nursing homes got shipments of supplies from the federal government…

When the coronavirus erupted at a nursing home near Seattle in late February, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly descended. They soon discovered two factors fueling the virus’ spread: Nurses were working while sick. And some of those sick nurses were working at other nursing homes. In the months since then, between a quarter and…

More than two months after the staff of Shady Oaks Assisted Living in Bristol, Connecticut, moved into the home at the peak of the coronavirus surge to keep the residents isolated from illness, most of the caregivers will leave for the first time this weekend. The home, according to its owner, remains COVID-free.