Alaska has the highest proportion of facilities reporting nursing home staff shortages in the U.S., while California has the lowest, a new analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation found.
Thirty-six percent of U.S. nursing home residents and 64 percent of staffers had not received a COVID-19 booster as of late February, an AARP analysis published March 17 found.
A New York state audit released this week found the state’s health department under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo failed to publicly account for 4,100 COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents.
Long-term care residents and staff with symptoms or signs of COVID-19 must be tested immediately, regardless of vaccination status, under updated CMS guidance for long-term care facilities.
The Joint Commission and Alzheimer’s Association are uniting to improve the quality and safety of dementia care in nursing, skilled nursing, and assisted-living facilities, the organizations said March 10.
Alaska provides the most hours of daily care to nursing home residents in the U.S., while Illinois offers the least, data from a quarterly Long Term Care Community Coalition report shows.
The American HealthCare Association and the National Center for Assisted Living are seeking a meeting with President Joe Biden and the head of CMS to discuss what they called “factually incorrect” information presented during the president’s rece…