New Jersey’s health commissioner recently issued an executive directive that requires COVID-19 testing of all staff and residents in long-term care facilities (nursing homes, assisted…
New York’s Governor issued new guidelines to nursing homes that are intended to provide more protection for residents and employees. Primarily, the guidelines require that…
The president and CEO of the New York State Health Facilities Association and the New York State Center for Assisted Living, Stephen Hanse, recently issued…
Staff members at an Illinois nursing home recently reported to police that one of their residents, a 61-year-old man, had walked out of the facility…
A nurse working in a New York hospital was recently arrested and charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and petty larceny after…
The governor of Pennsylvania recently signed an executive order to protect healthcare providers from malpractice suits. He issued this statement to explain his action: “As…
Determined not to allow the Coronavirus to decimate the French nursing home she manages, an administrator took drastic action that turned out to be very…
The mandated social isolation to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19 that has been put into place in nursing homes across the nation has…
The recently reported suicides of two healthcare workers in New York City—an emergency medical technician and an emergency physician—may be a harbinger of the traumatic…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) recently announced the establishing of a new independent commission whose purpose is to assess and report on the…