An acute shortage of nurses and aides in the nation’s nearly 15,000 nursing homes is at the root of many of the most disturbing shortfalls in care for the 1.2 million Americans who live in them.
Nursing homes are left in the dark as more utilities cut power to prevent wildfires
More than four years after COVID first raged through many U.S. nursing homes, hundreds of lawsuits blaming patient deaths on negligent care have been tossed out or languished in the courts amid contentious legal battles.
Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes
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ProPublica adds ownership information to its nursing home database
It can be hard to determine who is ultimately responsible for the quality of care in a nursing home. ProPublica’s Nursing Home Inspect tool now has detailed information on who owns a facility and who is responsible for running it.
As COVID infections rise, nursing homes are still waiting for vaccines
Many nursing homes will not begin inoculations until well into October or even November, though infections among this vulnerable population are rising steeply.
Biden administration proposes new standards to boost nursing home staffing
The new study said there was no single staffing level that would guarantee quality care, although the report estimated that higher staffing levels would lead to fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, faster care, and fewer failures to provide care.
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