COVID-19 patients living in long-term care facilities in select cities will receive the recently authorized antibody treatment bamlanivimab through a CVS pilot program.vaccine CVS has teamed up with the federal government to provide nursing home patients in certain...
Seeking answers, but met with silence, residents are left to wonder if they’ll be the next to disappear as the coronavirus pandemic ravages a Bronx assisted living facility. A communication breakdown amid a raging COVID-19 outbreak made for nightmare conditions within...
CDC Adopts Advisory Recommendations for Initial Vaccine Distribution allowing nursing home residents to be prioritized for the COVID vaccine. Residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities and the workers who care for them will be among the first in America...
In PA, they released the revised nursing home COVID-19 guidance. The guidance’s updated visitation policy seeks to address the adverse mental, emotional, and physical effects of prolonged resident isolation. Updated guidance for how Pennsylvania nursing homes should...
There is a COVID-19 nursing home crisis. In August advocates for Pennsylvania nursing home residents released a report that proposed immediate reforms the state might make to address those shortcomings that rendered PA long-term care facilities so vulnerable during...
Agents to Investigate Allegations of Fraud and Neglect During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Says the Department of Justice Two Pennsylvania nursing homes—one of which suffered the state’s highest nursing home COVID-19 tolls—were raided by federal and state investigators...