Despite Trump administration efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest onslaught of COVID-19.
Nov 8, 2020
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As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help—especially in rural areas and at small hospitals.
Nov 2, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Rural Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) spend more time in nursing homes, receive less home health care, and have shorter survival than their urban counterparts, according ...
Oct 26, 2020
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Seven months ago, the nation first heard of a surge of COVID-19 deaths in a Washington nursing home—an early warning sign of how the coronavirus could rip through such facilities. Since that time, more than 40% of the Americans ...
Oct 13, 2020
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Older racial and ethnic minority residents and their caregivers bear the severest brunt from COVID-19 across the entire spectrum of US nursing homes and assisted living communities, University of Rochester Medical Center ...
Sep 21, 2020
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COVID-19 infections have spread rapidly through nursing homes despite a ban on visitors to the facilities. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM's Judith A. Chevalier finds one likely explanation: staff members who work at ...
Aug 21, 2020
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Nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home residents, whose age, chronic medical conditions, and congregate living quarters place them and their caregivers at high risk of contracting ...
Aug 20, 2020
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Over 2,000 active cases of COVID-19 and 245 resident deaths as of August 19 have been linked to aged care homes in Victoria, spread across over 120 facilities. The St Basil's cluster alone now involves 191 cases. In New ...
Aug 20, 2020
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(HealthDay)—When COVID-19 was raging in the Northeastern United States, more than 25% of Connecticut nursing-home residents were suffering from the coronavirus, a new survey reports.
Aug 18, 2020
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The novel coronavirus is surging once more in U.S. nursing homes, where it killed tens of thousands at the start of the pandemic.
Aug 14, 2020
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