A dangerous fungus is spreading across hospitals and nursing homes nationwide, including in New York and New Jersey. Nicolás ...
The family of a man who died after spending a year at a nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility.
A 72-year-old contracted a contagious "fungal infection" at a nursing home and the staff secretly "isolated and sealed off" ...
The New York City Health Department is kicking off a new program that aims to keep COVID-19 infections down at nursing homes. AP/John Minchillo The New York City Health Department is developing a new ...
During the pandemic, one very clear tragedy stood out: Approximately 200,000 residents and staff died from COVID-19 in nursing homes. However, what many people don’t realize is that even before the ...
OIG new data brief's findings reflect a need to reexamine staffing minimums. Findings in a recent data brief from the Office of Inspector General looking at nursing homes with high infection rates ...
Nursing homes that regularly use universal decolonization methods like chlorhexidine bathing to clean the skin and iodophor to clean the nose reduces the chance of a patient being transferred to a ...
The family of a Seven Hills man — who died after spending a year in a local nursing home — is suing the facility for medical ...
Nursing homes across the country have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since ...
“Covid is not pretty in a nursing home,” said Deb Wityk, a 70-year-old retired massage therapist who lives in one called Spurgeon Manor, in rural Iowa. She twice contracted the disease and is eager to ...