A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

“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 ...

Nursing home COVID-19 cases increase as virus spreads across the country 02:48. ... Negotiations with management eventually led to a bump in pay for Rawls to $12.73 an hour, ...

Some experts say they are alarmed at the rate nursing homes continue to be cited for violations deep into a global health crisis. As the Delta variant of COVID-19 gains traction in the U.S ...

Residents of assisted living facilities and nursing homes should be far more worried about flu than COVID-19. Ask questions But that doesn’t mean COVID-19 is not serious.

Some nursing homes have switched to treating only COVID-19 patients, who bring in more government money. But to make room for them, the original residents are forced out of places they've called home.

Nursing homes were in many ways ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the vulnerability of residents and the degree of control that could be exercised by staff and management.

More testing of nursing home staff would have reduced covid-19 deaths, study says. Researchers say facilities that tested staff most frequently experienced 26 percent fewer resident deaths in the ...

Elderly, frail nursing home residents are among those who stood to benefit the most from antiviral treatments for covid-19. Yet too few of them received the drugs after being infected with the ...

Nursing homes are ground zero of the pandemic, write Noa Ghersin and Kate Kellogg. Long-term care facilities account for 65% of COVID-19 deaths in Massachusetts, and unless the state provides ...

An Oregon nursing home closed by the state after an early 2020 COVID-19 outbreak has reportedly agreed to settle a lawsuit with the families of 13 residents who died.

As of Sept. 10, about three-fourths of the home’s workers were up-to-date with their previous Covid vaccines, triple the national rate for nursing home employees, according to federal records.