Upscale Home for Dementia Patients Sued over Deaths in COVID-19 Outbreak
Relatives of three residents and a nurse who died following a coronavirus outbreak at an upscale Westside care facility for dementia patients are suing the…
Lawmakers Are Preparing for another Push to Eliminate CT’s Religious Exemption from Vaccines.
Last February, in the early weeks of Connecticut’s legislative session, lawmakers intent on erasing the state’s religious exemption from mandatory vaccinations quickly rolled out a…
CMS Releases COVID-19 Vaccine Reimbursement Toolkit
The initial supply of COVID-19 vaccines will be federally purchased, and there will be no cost to the American people who receive the COVID-19 vaccine.…
US Nursing Homes, Confused by Initial COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout, Will Begin Immunizations Next Week, CDC Says
The vast majority of nursing homes in the United States won’t start vaccinating staff and residents against COVID-19 until Dec. 21, and some won’t start…
New Jersey Man Admits Stealing Reimbursement Checks from Medical Practice
Nuno Fernandez, 38, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, admitted stealing health insurance reimbursement checks from a Hudson County medical practice for over four years. According to…
OCR Facilitates Safe Clergy Access for Patients at Mt. Sinai Hospital during COVID-19
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the resolution of a religious discrimination complaint,…
HHS Increases and Begins Distributing over $24 Billion in Phase 3 COVID-19 Provider Relief Funding
Today, the Trump Administration, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is announcing it has completed review of Phase 3 applications from the Provider…
Employee Charged with Setting Several Fires at Maryland Hospital
A woman has been arrested for setting several fires at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center over the weekend.
COVID-19 Nursing Home Death Rate at All-Time High
Over a four-week time span from mid-October to mid-November 2020, 8,436 nursing home residents have died per an analysis of federal data by the American…
Start of Vaccinations for Long-Term Care Residents Hinge on Consent Forms
While front-line healthcare workers in Florida started to receive COVID-19 vaccinations Monday, it may be a little but longer before long-term care residents begin getting…