Jean White’s mother has dementia and moved into a memory care facility near Tampa, Florida, just as coronavirus lockdowns began in spring 2020. For months, the family wasn’t allowed to go inside to visit.
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New Laws Let Visitors See Loved Ones in Health Care Facilities, Even In An Outbreak
Posted on 11 April 2022.
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Biden’s Promise Of Better Nursing Home Care Will Require Many More Workers
Posted on 03 March 2022.
The Biden administration has identified core impediments to better nursing home care in its proposed overhaul of the industry, but turning aspirations into reality will require a complex task.
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At Nursing Homes, Long Waits for Results Render Covid Tests ‘Useless’
Posted on 03 February 2022.
More nursing homes are waiting longer for covid-19 test results for residents and staffers, according to federal data, making the fight against record numbers of omicron cases even harder.
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Families Complain as States Require Covid Testing for Nursing Home Visits
Posted on 22 January 2022.
As covid-19 cases rise again in nursing homes, a few states have begun requiring visitors to present proof that they’re not infected before entering facilities, stoking frustration and dismay among family members.
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Feeling Powerless, Families Bring Elderly Home From Nursing Homes
Posted on 30 December 2021.
Pushed up to the breakfast table, Betty Bednarowski folds and refolds her napkin with studied intensity, softly singing “Winter Wonderland” without the words, the same as she did in March and July and September.
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Nursing Home Residents Overlooked in Scramble for Covid Antibody Treatments
Posted on 03 November 2021.
Of the dozens of patients Dr. Jim Yates has treated for covid-19 at his long-term care center in rural Alabama, this one made him especially nervous.
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