nursing homes

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission approved limited visitation rules for nursing facilities and long-term care facilities Thursday, provided that there is no physical contact and that the facility has been free from COVID-19 infections for at least 14 days.

For the first time in five months, families will be able to visit their loved ones at nursing and long-term care facilities. NBC 5’s Jack Highberger reports on how the visits will happen and the limitations.

For the first time in five months, families will be able to visit their loved ones at nursing and long-term care facilities, NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen reports.

President Donald Trump says his administration will provide another $5 billion to help nursing homes battle COVID-19.

Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of AHCA/NCAL speaks to the devastating impact Covid-19 continues to have at long-term care nursing facilities across the country as they run low on staff and PPE.

Younger Americans have been driving the recent coronavirus surge in Texas — but the virus is now also rapidly spreading in the state’s nursing homes, threatening elderly, frail residents who are most at risk of serious illness and death. Across Texas, nearly 1,000 new infections of nursing home residents were reported in the week ending Friday, July 10, NBC News found in…

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Texas will receive on-site, same-day COVID-19 testing and results for both residents and staff, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday.

More than five dozen residents of a Lake Worth nursing home were evacuated Wednesday afternoon at the request of state health officials, according to MedStar.

Nursing home residents are among the Americans getting $1,200 checks as part of the U.S. plan to revive the economy

A report from Senate Democrats finds that the Trump administration was slow to comprehend the scale of COVID-19’s impact on nursing homes and a disjointed federal response compounded the devastating toll.

A reckoning is beginning in France over the country’s 14,000 COVID-19 deaths among care home residents, a cataclysm that scythed through the generation that endured World War II.

Governor Greg Abbott plans to make an announcement allowing family to visit loved ones at senior living facilities within the next week.

Nursing homes residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths

A harrowing blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents

As COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes continue to accumulate at shocking rates, The New York Times spoke to a number of nursing home caregivers on their daily struggles, frustrations caring for high-risk patients.

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country. They say shipments have fallen short of what was promised during a White House press briefing at the end of April. Some local nursing homes got shipments of supplies from the federal government…

When the coronavirus erupted at a nursing home near Seattle in late February, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly descended. They soon discovered two factors fueling the virus’ spread: Nurses were working while sick. And some of those sick nurses were working at other nursing homes. In the months since then, between a quarter and…

More than two months after the staff of Shady Oaks Assisted Living in Bristol, Connecticut, moved into the home at the peak of the coronavirus surge to keep the residents isolated from illness, most of the caregivers will leave for the first time this weekend. The home, according to its owner, remains COVID-free.

The Trump administration is not requiring nursing homes to provide data on COVID-19 deaths and cases that occurred prior to May 6, according to a public government document, limiting the accuracy of the federal data collection effort to measure the impact of the pandemic on older Americans. The government encourages nursing homes to provide the data from before May 6, but...

Federal authorities aren’t setting any hard dates for when nursing homes can allow family members to visit again but are urging governors to use “extreme caution” in making that decision.