Ahead of Saturday’s third anniversary of the pandemic’s official declaration, one infection preventionist who spent much of COVID’s first year on frontlines in multiple states reflected on the challenges...
Life Care must face trial in 2 of nation’s earliest COVID deaths
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 31, 2023
Life Care Centers of America and one of its operating partners must face a wrongful death trial for alleged lapses in protocol at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Court rejects nursing home immunity in pandemic-era cases that don’t evoke COVID
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 27, 2024
A Staten Island nursing home must face a pandemic-era negligence suit that does not allege COVID missteps alone but rather broader infection control lapses, a New York appeals court has ruled.
‘Authoritative’ but effective: Study shows potential of internal vaccine mandate
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 08, 2023
Researchers found just 3.7% of unvaccinated workers in a network of continuing care retirement communities departed rather than get COVID shots after their employer adopted a mandate at the height of the...
Whistleblowers add to nursing home COVID relief burdens
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 31, 2022
A $105 million federal lawsuit filed last week — one possibly on its way to a quick dismissal — shows the growing threats nursing home operators face in accounting for their right to collect and spend...
CDC Shortens Recommended COVID Isolation Period
Mar 01, 2024
New guidance issued Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to routinely stay home for five days.
Life Care Centers vindicated in early COVID wrongful death case
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 23, 2023
A nursing home that was the site of the first major COVID-19 outbreak in the US is not liable for the deaths of two residents there, a federal jury decided late Friday.
SNFs have made great strides in preventing, treating COVID, docs say
By
Joe Bush
Oct 14, 2022
Nursing facilities are now highly skilled at preventing COVID-19 illness and staving off serious outcomes, said doctors in a panel discussion this week. But pandemic challenges linger.