Common flaw: Governments around the world failed to protect nursing home residents and staff
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 11, 2020
Nursing homes around the world were excluded from emergency preparation plans as government’s rushed to ensure that hospitals could handle an onslaught of coronavirus patients during the beginning of...
Lawmaker calls for ‘science’ as guide to VA COVID-19 care after controversial experimental drug use
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 11, 2020
A U.S. congresswoman is seeking answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ following a state-run center’s decision to prescribe a controversial drug to nursing home residents battling COVID-19.
Looking at COVID-19 through the eyes of residents with dementia
By
P.K. Beville
Aug 10, 2020
When I was in graduate school as a single parent, barely making ends meet, I lamented to my mother in loud, ugly sobs that I thought I might be going crazy. I was serious. My mother calmly responded,...
How to come out stronger after COVID-19
By
Robert Segal
Aug 07, 2020
For all skilled and long-term care operators, COVID-19 was a game-changer. For one particular mid-sized skilled nursing facility in the Midwest, this was no exception. With the first case came fear of...
The effect of social isolation on seniors
By
Michael Fragala, Ph.D.
Aug 06, 2020
During the current pandemic, multiple concerns have come to fruition within the long-term care, post-acute care industry. Two major factors that have arisen are around infection control and staffing. Due...
Despite PPE, healthcare workers face greater risk of positive COVID-19 test
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 04, 2020
Frontline providers with access to “adequate” personal protective equipment are three times more likely to test positive for the coronavirus than the general public. The rate rises to fivefold among...
Advice from LTC pros who have been through COVID-19
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jul 28, 2020
Here is some advice from staff members of New York City nursing homes hit early in the pandemic.
Eliminating staff ‘cross-traffic’ could have cut nursing home COVID-19 deaths by 44 percent,...
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 26, 2020
Thousands of deaths tied to U.S. nursing homes could have been prevented if operators would have slightly adjusted their staffing model, academic researchers assert in a new study.
HHS renews public health emergency, allowing waivers, Medicaid increase to remain in play
By
Liza Berger
Jul 24, 2020
With the expiration of the public health emergency declaration just two days away, the federal government on Thursday renewed the declaration for the pandemic, a welcome move for long-term care providers. ...
Hundreds of nursing home workers plan walkout in nationwide protest
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 14, 2020
Hundreds of nursing home workers in Michigan are joining what they call a nationwide walkout to protest systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.