Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Senate Approves Coronavirus Liability Bill for Nursing Homes, Businesses
Jun 15 2020 // The Tennessee Senate advanced legislation Thursday that would provide nursing homes, grocery stores and other businesses sweeping protections from coronavirus lawsuits. The measure is similar to the growing trend going on...
Iowa Republicans Push to Limit Coronavirus Liability
Jun 11 2020 // Iowa Republican legislators are fast-tracking a bill that would give meatpacking plants, nursing homes and other businesses broad immunity from coronavirus lawsuits despite criticism that it would also enable them to...
Nursing Homes Account for 60% of Idaho’s COVID-19 Fatalities
Jun 9 2020 // More than 60% of Idaho’s coronavirus-related deaths are among residents of long-term care facilities like nursing homes, according to numbers released by the state on Friday. The Idaho Department of Health and...
Mississippi to Release Names of Nursing Homes with Virus Outbreaks After Lawsuit
Jun 4 2020 // The Mississippi State Department of Health said Tuesday that it will start releasing the names of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities where people have tested positive for the new coronavirus. The action...
Another Resident of Wyoming Nursing Home Dies of COVID-19
Jun 3 2020 // A second resident of a Wyoming nursing home has died of the coronavirus. The older man had been hospitalized and was a resident of a Washakie County long-term care facility where testing identified 12 cases among residents...
Tennessee to Require COVID-19 Testing at Long-Term Care Facilities
Jun 1 2020 // Gov. Bill Lee’s administration announced Friday that long-term care facilities will soon be required to test all of their residents and staff for COVID-19 after initially just urging nursing homes to do so. According...
Georgia Nursing Home Cited for Delayed Reporting of Virus-Infected Workers
Jun 1 2020 // The federal agency that oversees workplace safety said Friday that it had issued its first citation in the U.S. related to the coronavirus outbreak: against a Georgia nursing home that delayed reporting the hospitalization...
Arizona Judge Rules Against Releasing Nursing Home COVID-19 Stats
Jun 1 2020 // The state of Arizona doesn’t have to publicly reveal the number of coronavirus cases and deaths among residents of nursing homes, long-term facilities and retirement homes, a state judge ruled on Friday. The ruling...
Nursing Home With Oregon’s Deadliest Virus Outbreak Sued
Jun 1 2020 // The daughter of a woman who died after contracting the coronavirus at a Portland long-term care facility filed a $1.8 million lawsuit last month claiming elder abuse. Angela Brown says her 75-year-old mother, Judith Jones,...
Kentucky Nursing Home Evacuated After Coronavirus Outbreak
May 28 2020 // An outbreak of coronavirus cases at a Kentucky nursing home forced the evacuation of dozens of residents to hospitals, state officials said Tuesday. Thirty-nine residents and 20 staff members at Nazareth Clifton in...
Nursing Home With Oregon’s Deadliest Virus Outbreak Sued
May 19 2020 // The daughter of a woman who died after contracting the coronavirus at a Portland long-term care facility filed a $1.8 million lawsuit Thursday claiming elder abuse. Angela Brown says her 75-year-old mother, Judith Jones,...
OSHA Releases First Coronavirus Guidance for Nursing Homes
May 19 2020 // The U.S. Department of Labor last Thursday issued its first workplace guidance to nursing homes since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country and ravaged care facilities, saying residents, staff and visitors should keep 6...
23 Killed of COVID-19 in Alabama Veterans Nursing Home
May 14 2020 // About two dozen people have died at an Alabama veterans nursing home because of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, the state said Tuesday. The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement...
Texas to Test Everyone in Nursing Homes as COVID-19 Deaths Rise
May 13 2020 // Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered coronavirus testing for all Texas nursing home residents and staff after the White House urged the nation’s governors to do so as deaths mount nationwide. The directive by Abbott, a...
New York Strengthens COVID-19 Safety Measures for Nursing Homes
May 10 2020 // New York state on Sunday announced new coronavirus-safety measures to better protect nursing home residents, who are highly vulnerable to the respiratory illness and account for a large share of the nearly 80,000 Americans...
COVID-19 Hits Already-Troubled Nursing Home Insurance Market; Brokers Try to Help
May 10 2020 // Nursing homes are right in the middle of the deadly coronavirus pandemic hitting the U.S, with more than 28%, or nearly 20,000, of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths happening in these long term care facilities, according...
As Deaths Rise to 20,000, Nursing Homes Seek Immunity from Lawsuits
May 10 2020 // Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection...
Strikes at Dozens of Illinois Nursing Homes Averted with Labor Deal
May 8 2020 // Staff at dozens of Illinois nursing homes called off a strike set to begin May 8 after their union reached a tentative deal with nursing home owners that will increase workers’ pay to at least $15 and guarantee...
Nursing Home Insurance Market In Need of Care
May 4 2020 // Nursing homes are right in the middle of the deadly coronavirus pandemic hitting the U.S, with more than 20%, or 11,000, of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths happening in these long term care facilities, according to a...
Extra Care: Brokers, Carriers Trying to Help
May 4 2020 // Nursing home insurance specialists say that they are doing whatever they can to help their insureds during this trying time, either by sending out information from the CDC, answering questions, aiding with documentation,...
