Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Judge Orders Release of New York Data on Long-Term Care Deaths
Feb 8 2021 // A state judge ordered New York’s Department of Health to release records about nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in a ruling that said the agency’s failure to do so already was a...
New York Undercounted Nursing Home Deaths by Thousands, Attorney General Says
Feb 3 2021 // New York may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents by thousands, the state attorney general charged in a report Thursday that dealt a blow to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s oft-repeated claims that...
Georgia Law Blocks Families of Nursing Home Residents from Suing Over COVID Deaths
Feb 2 2021 // A suburban Atlanta nursing home where 22 people died from COVID-19 has been faulted by state inspectors for failing to control infections, but relatives of people who died say they can’t sue because Georgia lawmakers...
Trump Health Secretary Rule Slows COVID Court Claims Against Nursing Homes
Jan 28 2021 // Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mother’s death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of the disease. An unexpected legal hurdle...
Walgreens, CVS Lead COVID-19 Vaccination Drive for Nursing Homes
Dec 21 2020 // The U.S. government and two of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains kick off a nationwide campaign to vaccinate nursing home residents against COVID-19 on Monday, a week after the first vaccines authorized in the...
Workers With Second Jobs May Be Factor in Nursing Home COVID Risk: Study
Dec 21 2020 // Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs may be one of the factors contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities. According to a new study published in Medical Care...
Workers With Second Jobs May Be Factor in Nursing Home COVID Risk: Study
Dec 10 2020 // Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs may be one of the factors contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities. According to a new study published in Medical Care...
Florida Nursing Homes Will Be First to Receive COVID Vaccine
Dec 8 2020 // Residents in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities will be the first to get a coronavirus vaccine when Florida begins receiving it later this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis said. DeSantis’ priorities, announced in...
AmWINS Programs Adds Core Specialty as Long-Term Care Facilities Program Carrier
Dec 8 2020 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. will be the carrier providing insurance coverage for AmWINS Program Underwriters’ (APU) Long-Term Care Facilities program, effective January 1, 2021. The Long-Term Care...
Missouri Nursing Home to Pay $40K to Settle Gender Pay Discrimination Claims
Dec 3 2020 // A Kansas City-area nursing home has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it paid female nurses less than male nurses, federal authorities say. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that Edgewood...
AmWINS Program Underwriters Announces New Carrier for Long-Term Care Facilities Program
Dec 2 2020 // CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 2, 2020) – AmWINS Program Underwriters (“APU”) today announced a new carrier partnership to provide insurance solutions for APU’s Long-Term Care Facilities program, effective...
Health Workers, Nursing Homes Should Get First COVID Vaccines, Says CDC
Dec 2 2020 // A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13 to 1 to recommend that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be first in line to receive...
Montana Nursing Home Lawsuit Adding More Claims
Nov 30 2020 // A lawsuit against a long-term care facility in Whitefish, Mont., has been amended to add claims that it was part of a multi-state network of facilities that enriched corporate owners while residents received negligent...
Senior Living in a Post-Pandemic World
Nov 16 2020 // Property/casualty insurance for senior living facilities has taken a hit this year. The insurance market has been hardening for the last year or two, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought on a wave of new challenges that has...
3 Ps to Consider When Managing the Risks of Assisted Living Facilities
Nov 16 2020 // Assisted living facilities provide a necessary service to our aging population, but operating them comes with risks. When you consider that they are designed to provide care for our loved ones in ways that many of us are...
COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes Rising in States Hit by Latest Virus Surge
Nov 10 2020 // Despite Trump administration efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest onslaught of COVID-19. An analysis of federal data...
Lawsuit Filed Against Montana Nursing Home for Negligence in Virus Deaths
Oct 27 2020 // A long-term care facility in Montana has been sued after health officials said its staff was negligent and allowed the coronavirus to spread through the facility in Whitefish earlier this year. The lawsuit has been filed...
Scott Benefit Services Expands Senior Living Practice in Southeast
Oct 26 2020 // Scott Benefit Services, a division of Scott Insurance, will expand its Senior Living Practice into additional markets in the Southeast region. The Senior Living Practice, led by Pim Jager, vice president and branch leader...
Study: Hurricane Irma Led to 400 Senior Deaths in Florida Nursing Homes
Oct 16 2020 // The aftereffects of 2017’s Hurricane Irma appear to have killed more than 400 senior residents of Florida nursing homes, a new university study shows. Researchers at the University of South Florida and Brown...
More than 40% of Coronavirus Deaths in Nebraska at Nursing Homes
Sep 22 2020 // More than 40% of the deaths linked to the coronavirus in Nebraska have been at nursing homes, but the overall rate of deaths in the state’s nursing homes has remained relatively low compared with national figures. A...
