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 ...

The coronavirus decimated nursing homes during the first two years of the pandemic, killing more than 200,000 residents and staff members.

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 ...

An Oregon nursing home closed by the state after an early COVID outbreak has reportedly agreed to settle a lawsuit with 13 families.

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 ...

In lawsuits, some families who lost loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic say they were misled by nursing home facilities.

Prior research and the popular press have anecdotally reported inadequate nursing home staffing levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining adequate staffing levels is critical to ensuring ...

A new study found that less than 18% of nursing home residents with COVID-19 were never offered lifesaving drugs; 40% of nursing homes never used any of the drugs.

Just 18% of COVID cases in nursing homes were treated with antiviral medications, and the rate increased only slightly after oral treatments were approved, according to new research.

With the end of the public health emergency, nursing homes now may relax many precautions against COVID. Where does the pandemic stand now in nursing homes.

Nursing homes operating as for-profit enterprises generally implemented less severe lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic than their nonprofit and government-run counterparts.

“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 ...