State Pandemic Lawsuits Proceed against NJ Nursing Homes: Rejecting the operator’s claim that pandemic lawsuits should be heard in federal court, a federal appeals court ruled that the negligence claims brought against two New Jersey nursing homes should proceed in...
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Nursing Home Workers, non-compliant facilities will lose federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. According to the Associated Press, the Biden administration has announced an emergency regulation requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for all...
U.S. Count Misses Covid Nursing Home Deaths Recent research indicates that the initial government counts of COVID-19 deaths in United States nursing homes may have missed more than 16,0000 deaths, according to The Journal News. The article states that the missing...
Even with rising vaccinations and plummeting infections, strict COVID nursing home visitation rules remain in place With the arrival of COVID vaccines, the question of when family members can visit their loved ones in nursing homes is being asked with increasing...
Owners with a for-profit focus have left nursing homes vulnerable to COVID as they prioritize profit over quality operations. Nursing home owners poised their homes to fail during the coronavirus pandemic, says a recent article in the New York Times. Years of...
Are PA, NJ COVID nursing home deaths out of control? According to an article last week in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the U.S. Justice Department is considering pursuing a civil rights investigation into COVID-related nursing home deaths in certain states, New Jersey...
