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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new staffing requirements in April that focus on standardizing nurse staffing, requiring 24/7 access to registered nurses and regulating facility assessments.
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The Kentucky government is behind on its safety inspections for nursing homes — and it has far too few surveyors to deal with that backlog.
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Since the pandemic began, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have lost more than 400,000 jobs, according to national data. Facilities in Tennessee have lost more than 8,000 workers — a 13% decrease.
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Fern Terrace, a personal care home for the elderly in Murray, is set to close Nov. 19 after 49 years in operation due to staffing shortages.
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The people getting sick with COVID in Tennessee nursing homes has flipped: Instead of residents falling ill, now it’s mostly the staff. Of the 120 long...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services now recommends that visitors and residents, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated, be allowed to meet in person under most circumstances.
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The federal government is offering nursing homes the chance to opt in to the new program, in which pharmacy staff would deliver and administer a future vaccine on site.
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Coronavirus continues to be deadly in Kentucky’s long-term care facilities like nursing homes, and is especially dangerous for residents suffering from…
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As the economies of the Ohio Valley gradually reopen from the pandemic closures, state officials are still reporting hundreds of coronavirus cases each…
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Nursing homes banned all visitors and nonessential workers from their facilities in mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19. Advocates and families want that ban to end.