The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has published facts and tips for dealing with the impact of social distancing during an event…
Nearly two years after the suspicious death on April 6, 2018, of an 82-year-old retired U.S. Army sergeant in a West Virginia VA hospital, family…
Since 2017, it is reported that over 9,300 nursing homes have received citations for one or more infection control deficiencies. Notably, facilities with fewer nurses…
A nurse’s aide was recently arrested and charged with reckless homicide and gross patient neglect in the 2018 death of an Ohio nursing home resident.…
Recently health inspectors were told to focus on infection-control programs in nursing homes, especially those with identified cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The deaths of…
Police recently arrested an aide in a California nursing home for inappropriately touching a resident and for elder abuse. The alleged offenses were performed in…
Congress recently passed a spending bill to provide $8.3 billion to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The bill allows the Department of Health…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced some actions that healthcare providers, including nursing homes, need to take immediately to confront the…
According to a recent report from the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, for about 80% of the persons infected with the coronavirus, the effects being…
Discovery of a carbon monoxide leak recently forced residents in a New York nursing home to be evacuated, in the early morning 3-degree bitter-cold temperature,…