Big Investors Push Nursing Homes to Upgrade Care and Working Conditions
(By Harris Meyer for Kaiser Health News) Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid
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Indoor Visits With Nursing Home Residents OK, New CDC Guidance Says
(By Scott Neuman for NPR) Health officials have relaxed federal COVID-19 guidance for nursing homes for the first time since
Read MoreTexas Winter Storm Exposes Gaps in Senior Living Oversight
(By Sandy West for Kaiser Health News) HOUSTON — When the big, red and extremely loud fire alarm went off
Read MoreReopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’
(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed
Read MoreUnitedHealthcare suspends some prior authorization rules for hospitals
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) UnitedHealthcare suspended some prior authorization requirements for in-network hospitals and in-network skilled nursing
Read More99% of long-term care facilities have signed up for free COVID-19 vaccines from CVS, Walgreens
(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Nov. 18 that the department is seeing “tremendous uptake”
Read MoreNursing Homes Still See Dangerously Long Waits for COVID Test Results
(By Jordan Rau and Lauren Weber and Rachana Pradhan for Kaiser Health News) Nursing homes are still taking days to get back COVID-19 test results
Read MoreThousands of long-term care facilities have signed up for free COVID-19 vaccines given by CVS, Walgreens
(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Thousands of long-term care facilities have opted into a free HHS program with
Read MoreCVS, long-term care facilities to team up, distribute COVID-19 vaccine
(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CVS Health said Oct. 16 that it will partner with long-term care facilities
Read MoreOver 70 percent of seniors will need long-term care
Many seniors and non-seniors assume that Medicare covers long-term care, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Yes, Medicare
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