Nursing Homes
Massachusetts to Pay $56 Million After Deadly Covid Outbreak at Veterans’ Home
Massachusetts said on Thursday that it had agreed to pay $56 million to resolve claims that the leaders of a state-run nursing home for military veterans showed deliberate indifference during a coronavirus outbreak that was linked to the deaths of 84 residents early in the pandemic. An independent investigation had painted a picture of chaos […]
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Families of Veterans Who Died of Covid Win $53 Million Legal Settlement
It was among the country’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks: One in every three residents of a New Jersey nursing home for frail military veterans died as the virus raced unchecked through the state-run facility. The 101 residents who died in the first eight months of the pandemic included both of Regina Costantino Discenza’s parents, who had […]
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Here’s How Philadelphia’s Covid Mandate for Health Workers Worked
Citing the widespread staffing shortages in his industry, Mr. Parkinson said his group would continue to pursue a testing alternative to prevent workers from leaving for other jobs. In Philadelphia, hospitals are the largest employer, with some 57,000 workers, according to an estimate from Philadelphia Works, a nonprofit. The city’s experience also underscored the work […]
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How Nursing Homes’ Worst Offenses Are Hidden From the Public
The public never found out that inspectors cited another New Jersey nursing home, Rehab at River’s Edge, for failing to protect a fragile resident who fell seven separate times, at one point fracturing her foot. And the public never found out that a resident at the Golden Living Center nursing home in Morgantown, W.Va., crashed […]
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Upstate New York Hospitals Are Overwhelmed as Covid Cases Surge
A surge in Covid cases and a shortage of health care workers is filling hospitals and nursing homes past their capacity in upstate New York, creating a growing crisis in the health care system even before the Omicron variant is known to have spread through the area, according to hospital executives from Buffalo to Albany. […]
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Booster Rollout for Nursing Homes Is Sluggish
A Connecticut nursing home had planned to roll out Covid booster shots to residents at the beginning of this month. But before it could start the program, the coronavirus swept through the home, the Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in North Canaan, infecting 89 people, including 67 residents. Nearly all were fully vaccinated. Eight of […]
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Luxury Senior Homes Cater to Rich Baby Boomers
By adopting the look and language of hospitality (at the Watermark, help getting dressed is called a “discreet service”), keeping residents busy with cultural and personal enrichment, and obscuring medical services, these members of the rock ‘n’ roll generation don’t feel they are in the old folks’ home. If not for the red pull cords […]
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