Posted on 21 February 2023. Tags: COVID, Health, Vaccine, mandate, nursing home
At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors, with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating a positive COVID-19 case.
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Posted in Health, Family Care
Posted on 08 November 2022. Tags: Health and Hospital Corp, Supreme Court, case, nursing home
When Susie Talevski sued the agency that managed her elderly father’s care before he died, she hoped to get justice for her family.
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Posted in Health, Legal Matters
Posted on 08 June 2022. Tags: : CMS, Biden administration, Medicare, investigation, nursing home, private equity firms
There are more than 15,500 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in America today, with more than 1.4 million residents.
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Posted in Family Care, Features, Pushback
Posted on 29 January 2022. Tags: Medicare, Observation, gap, hospital, inpatient, nursing home
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial.
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Posted in Health, Finance & Work
Posted on 05 January 2022. Tags: Alzheimer's unit, COVID, Missouri, Pandemic, closure, elderly, nursing home
Marvin Querry, 86, was on his tractor, planting rye on his 770-acre western Missouri farm, when the call came in early November.
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Posted in Health, Family Care
Posted on 05 July 2021. Tags: COVID, Pandemic, aging, elderly, nursing home, relatives
Barbara and Christine Colucci long to remove their masks and kiss their 102-year-old mother, who has dementia and is in a nursing home in Rochester, New York. They would love to have more than two people in her room at a time so that relatives can be there too.
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Posted in Family Care