Quit treating pandemic’s toll on nursing homes like a ‘bad apples’ problem, expert...
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 14, 2020
It’s time for the federal government to “own” the problem of containing COVID-19 by paying for and arranging testing across nursing facilities, long-term care policy expert David Grabowski...
Support needed to improve health outcomes in nursing homes that serve Black residents, experts say
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Alicia Lasek
May 06, 2021
A new study in more than 11,000 nursing homes has shown that facilities with Black residents have higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death. The results suggest that the disparities are rooted in structures...
Assisted living residents with dementia had higher all-cause mortality during pandemic
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 10, 2022
Assisted living residents with dementia were more likely to die from any cause in the early months of the pandemic than AL residents without dementia, a new study has found.
Nursing home COVID cases rise four-fold in surge states, resident deaths double, data shows
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 10, 2020
The rising weekly case count includes residents and staff in 20 states. Meanwhile, about one in six nursing homes did not report testing staff members in the prior week.
Geriatrician survey: Swift telehealth adoption was ‘instrumental’ to pandemic patient care
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 18, 2022
Responses by Genesis HealthCare physicians offer insight into the dramatic shift in care delivery that took place as COVID-19 raged in 2020.
Pandemic paves way for mobile dentistry, teledentistry in long-term care, experts say
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 12, 2021
Mobile dentistry for people with dementia, teledentistry, and vaccines by dentist are some of the opportunities that have arisen from disruptions to residents’ oral healthcare during the pandemic, according...
Nursing homes more prepared for the coronavirus than for H1N1: survey
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 26, 2020
Despite the COVID-19 troubles currently facing eldercare facilities, things could have been much worse for some, a Michigan survey suggests.
Diaries of infection preventionists offer peek into pandemic struggles
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 06, 2021
Real-time reports from the height of the pandemic offer a glimpse into the highs and lows infection preventionists faced as they tackled unprecedented challenges.
AHCA/NCAL: When inspected during pandemic, most nursing homes deficiency-free
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 28, 2022
Despite navigating unprecedented hardship and loss during the pandemic, there is evidence that care in nursing homes held steady in a number of quantifiable areas, according to the organization’s...
FDA to withdraw certain drug-related guidances with end of PHE
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 14, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a notice detailing which COVID-19-related guidances will expire when the public health emergency ends as scheduled on May 11, and which guidances will remain...