Hugs for Nursing Home Residents OK again, says CMS
With hugs for nursing home residents ok again, the guidance will be a boon for the mental and emotional well-being of residents previously isolated due to COVID. New guidance recently released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) permits vaccinated...
Emergency Regulation Mandates COVID-19 Vaccines for Nursing Home Workers
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Nursing Home Workers, non-compliant facilities will lose federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. According to the Associated Press, the Biden administration has announced an emergency regulation requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for all...
Proposed Nursing Home Legislation Would Boost Staffing
Proposed Nursing Home Legislation Would Boost Staffing: According to NBC Philadelphia, a bill that is part of a larger effort to revamp long-term care was introduced by senior Democratic senators earlier this month. This proposed nursing home legislation would boost...
PA Nursing Homes Unprepared for Looming Dementia Care Crisis
PA Nursing Homes are Unprepared for Dementia Care Crisis The state gets a near-failing grade from experts and advocates based on its lack of preparedness for the coming boom in dementia care. Pennsylvania nursing homes will not be ready to handle an expected upsurge...
False Diagnoses Conceal Inappropriate Antipsychotic Patient Drugging in Nursing Homes
Inappropriate Antipsychotic Patient Drugging in Nursing Homes Concealed: The nursing home industry and the government are masking the frequency with which antipsychotic drugs are used on elderly residents with dementia, a New York Times investigation has found. While...
Official U.S. Count Misses over 16,000 Covid Nursing Home Deaths
U.S. Count Misses Covid Nursing Home Deaths Recent research indicates that the initial government counts of COVID-19 deaths in United States nursing homes may have missed more than 16,0000 deaths, according to The Journal News. The article states that the missing...
Is It Safe to Resume Nursing Home Visits?
Even with rising vaccinations and plummeting infections, strict COVID nursing home visitation rules remain in place With the arrival of COVID vaccines, the question of when family members can visit their loved ones in nursing homes is being asked with increasing...
Many Nursing Home Workers Are Rejecting COVID Vaccine
Mistrust And Worry Fuels Vaccine Skepticism: Many Nursing Home Workers Are Rejecting COVID Vaccine An American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) article says that, despite the inclusion of nursing home staff in the top tier for receiving the coronavirus vaccine,...
COVID Cases, Deaths in Nursing Homes Drop by 80 Percent Following Vaccines
New Nursing Home Coronavirus Cases Reach Their Lowest Numbers since Data Tracking Began: Deaths in Nursing Homes Drop 80 Percent Following Vaccines Following the rollout of vaccines to American long-term care facilities that began late last year, new COVID cases and...
The Price of Isolation: Excess Deaths among Dementia Patients during COVID Lockdowns
Due to necessary isolation during the Coronavirus pandemic, there has been an excess in deaths among dementia patients during COVID lockdowns. The tactic of isolation in long term care facilities, meant to protect the vulnerable elderly during the coronavirus...
For-Profit Focus Left Nursing Homes Vulnerable to COVID
Owners with a for-profit focus have left nursing homes vulnerable to COVID as they prioritize profit over quality operations. Nursing home owners poised their homes to fail during the coronavirus pandemic, says a recent article in the New York Times. Years of...
Death, Isolation, and Neglect: Why Nursing Homes Continue to Fail Against COVID-19
A number of systemic problems that existed prior to the coronavirus pandemic are responsible for the failure of American nursing homes against the virus, says a recent article in the New York Times, and unless certain measures are implemented toward change, the...