nursing homes

Wolf administration officials say the state doesn’t have the money to maintain a key feature of the state’s response to coronavirus outbreaks in Pennsylvania’s nursing homes, and are working to retain a short-term, scaled-down model now that federal funding ran out

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, ahead of EMS workers getting their first doses of coronavirus vaccines. First responders and residents and workers at long-term care facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania will begin getting vaccinated against COVID-19 Monday.

A federal program is underway to get doses of the coronavirus vaccine to millions of nursing home residents and staff members in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville shows us what this means for families who haven’t been able to see their loved ones in months.

A nurse practitioner in Colorado has built a state-approved contraption that allows people to hug their loved ones safely.

Eight Sisters at Notre Dame of Elm Grove died from COVID-19 in a week despite the retirement homes best efforts.

After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots

Nursing home residents and staff members will be among the first people in the United States to receive the coronavirus vaccine, NBC News reports.

A panel with the CDC voted to allow health workers and nursing home residents to be the first ones to get the COVID-19 vaccine once it’s available. Zach Shamberg, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, reacted to the decision in an interview with NBC10’s Jacqueline London.

A panel with the Centers for Disease Control voted for healthcare workers and nursing home residents to receive the COVID-19 vaccines first once the doses are available. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk explains.

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.

One bill requires facilities to maintain a minimum staff-to-patient ratio at all times, while the other requires facilities to create policies to avoid social isolation of residents and enable better communication with loved ones

About half of Philadelphia’s nursing home patients were infected with the coronavirus this year, and may be able to resist a second wave. When a COVID-19 vaccine is ready, assisted living residents and their caretakers will likely receive it first.

One bill boosts the minimum wage for direct-care staff at long-term care facilities by $ 3 an hour, while another sets aside more than $62 million in state funds to increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate

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.

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

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…

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.