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Study details how COVID outbreaks led to lasting staff loss in nursing homes — and poses solutions … McKnight’s podcast: Why LTC providers must embrace more palliative care … Thursday’s CDC...

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A new study reveals top factors tied to record-setting mortality rates in Canada’s LTC facilities during the early pandemic, and a treatment that boosted survival in severely ill residents.

By 2016, 81% of California’s long-stay residents and 68% of short-stay residents had physician orders for life-sustaining treatment recorded in the MDS.

An AARP analysis shows a sharp uptick in infections between mid-April and mid-May, while residents’ booster shots have slowed to a trickle.

Staff shortages and work overload are taking a heavy toll, long-term care nurses and clinical administrators tell a news outlet in Maine. “We’re trying to make things work as best we can, but...

HHS has published a new report outlining federal resources available to healthcare workers who care for patients with lasting effects from COVID-19. 

In a new editorial, specialists ask whether Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment lead to high-quality care for residents.

Post-acute patients transferred to skilled nursing facilities in 2020 had a relatively low risk of COVID-19 infection, researchers say.

Fully 25% of older American Medicare beneficiaries are at high risk of being harmed during acute care stays, according to the HHS Office of the Inspector General.