Tag: Nursing Homes / Elder Care

Masking 'remains recommended' during an outbreak among patients or 'when caring for patients who are moderately to severely immunocompromised'

Rapid recovery associated with reduced mortality and fewer hospitalizations

Staffing was a major focal point of the study, which advocates say is too low in sheer numbers, while staff is also untrained and underpaid

Nursing home residents continue to be more vulnerable both because of their age and underlying medical conditions

Positive association found between COVID-19 burden and 12-month percent change in employment levels among SNFs

During the week ending Jan. 9, U.S. nursing homes reported more than 32,000 cases and 645 deaths among their residents

By the end of October, only about a quarter of fully vaccinated nursing home residents had received a booster

Adjusted effectiveness 53.1 percent against infection in nursing home residents during period when delta strain was predominant

New mandate, which will come in the form of a regulation to be issued by CMS, could happen next month

Order issued as the most populous state in the country struggles to slow infections caused by the highly contagious delta variant