Trump Administration Announces New Scrutiny Of Nursing Homes

The Trump administration said Wednesday that inspectors will be dispatched to determine whether staff at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., followed infection control rules in the weeks leading up to deaths of residents there from COVID-19.

Health inspectors are to be “hyperfocused on infection control right now” officials say, as they suss out what allowed COVID-19 to spread in a Kirkland, Wash., nursing home.

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