nursing homes

More than two months after the staff of Shady Oaks Assisted Living in Bristol, Connecticut, moved into the home at the peak of the coronavirus surge to keep the residents isolated from illness, most of the caregivers will leave for the first time this weekend. The home, according to its owner, remains COVID-free.

The Trump administration is not requiring nursing homes to provide data on COVID-19 deaths and cases that occurred prior to May 6, according to a public government document, limiting the accuracy of the federal data collection effort to measure the impact of the pandemic on older Americans. The government encourages nursing homes to provide the data from before May 6, but...

Federal authorities aren’t setting any hard dates for when nursing homes can allow family members to visit again but are urging governors to use “extreme caution” in making that decision.

Administrators at a Colorado nursing home hard hit by COVID-19 say shipments of personal protective equipment needed to protect their staff were seized and redirected by the federal government. They are still waiting for an explanation.

The White House is recommending that all nursing home residents and staff be tested for the coronavirus in the next two weeks

For the Isabella Geriatric Center at the northern end of Manhattan, the coronavirus has been a calamity, suspected of killing nearly 100 residents at the 705-bed nursing home. The death toll forced it to store bodies in a refrigerated truck and prompted U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat to call for an investigation into whether nursing homes have withheld information from regulators…

If you’re sending flowers for someone in a medical facility, check with staff before you order. Some healthcare and nursing facilities are restricting flower deliveries for Mother’s Day in light of the coronavirus.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the national debate over when to reopen outbreak-ravaged economies boils down to the value placed on people’s lives

Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing to get states to grant them emergency protection from lawsuits alleging inadequate care

President Donald Trump said Thursday that nursing homes, which have been ravaged by coronavirus, had been “a little bit of a weak spot” in the U.S. response to the disease, and announced FEMA would ship a seven-day supply of gowns and masks to the nation’s 15,000 long-term care facilities.

A few states may have found a way to help slow the spread of the coronavirus in nursing homes by converting some of them into “recovery centers” set aside mostly for residents who have left the hospital but still might be contagious or lack immunity.

After two months and more than 11,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents

One employee complained of urine and fecal matter on the facility’s floor, while another said no proper PPE was ever provided for staff members while they worked with residents

A nursing home in an upscale section of New York City’s Brooklyn borough with 55 deaths blamed on the coronavirus has become another example of the struggle to control such outbreaks amid shortages of staff, protective equipment and testing.

Federal officials say they plan to start tracking and publicly sharing information on infections and deaths at nursing homes nationwide to help spot trends and signs of spread in communities

A phone call led New Jersey police to gruesome scene at a nursing home in New Jersey that has been ravaged by the coronavirus.

Federal officials are coming under increasing pressure to start publicly tracking coronavirus infections and deaths in nursing homes amid criticism they have not been transparent about the scope of outbreaks that have already claimed thousands of lives

More than 3,600 deaths have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities nationwide, an alarming rise in just the past two weeks

Deadly clusters of COVID-19 have taken a toll at nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the country.

There are now more than 400 long-term care facilities nationwide with residents who are infected with coronavirus cases, an increase of 172 percent from 146 on Monday, March 23, according to the Centers for Disease Control.