Posts In Nursing Home Abuse

Unvaccinated Health Care Worker Sets off COVID-19 Outbreak at Nursing Home May 06

In Kentucky, an unvaccinated health care worker was the source of a COVID-19 outbreak that infected dozens at a nursing home, as ...

As Nursing Homes Fail to Evolve with Resident Needs, the Staff Takes the Blame May 04

Numerous studies have shown that the key indicator of quality in a nursing home is the ratio of nurses to patients. Today’s ...

With Vaccines Booming, When Will Nursing Home Isolation End? Apr 27

Get vaccinated so we can be around people again. That’s been the message from officials and pharmaceutical companies eager to put ...

Daughter Takes Second Job at Nursing Home to Spend Time with Quarantined Dad Mar 18

What do you do when your father is isolated in a nursing home under quarantine and his only human contact is with staff members? ...

Maryland to Allow Nursing Home Visitors Under New Guidelines Mar 18

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

Nursing Homes with Higher Staff Ratios Keep Patients Safer Mar 16

If you ask any patient advocate what can be done to improve nursing homes , one of the answers will be increasing the number of ...