This essay details the author's experiences as a medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Richmond, Virginia, the first nursing home to have a COVID-19 outbreak in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It explores how the deaths of his patients challenged his faith...
Log In Sign Up For Newsletter Health Law & Business Nursing homes were an epicenter for Covid-19, leading to more than 1,500,000 confirmed cases among staff members and 3,024 staff deaths. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg March 18, 2023, 1:33 AM GMT+8 Veterans' Nursing Home Lead...
"This is especially true for those who have gotten the updated vaccine that became available in September," said Mody. "We encourage all nursinghome residentsand staff, and the family members who visit these homes, to get vaccinated and help prevent more cases of acute and long COVID in thi...
A review of key learnings from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes in Ireland can inform planning for future pandemics. This study describes barriers and facilitators contributing to COVID-19 outbreak management from the perspective of frontline teams. Methods A qualitative study...
BMC Geriatrics (2021) 21:294 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02228-4 RESEARCH Open Access Dying from COVID-19 in nursing homes-sex differences in symptom occurrence Lisa Martinsson1*, Peter Strang2,3, Jonas Bergström4 and Staffan Lundström2,3 Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease ...
at the University of Illinois Chicago, the Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA), the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group are collaborating to examine comparative rates of Covid-19-related deaths among older adults who reside in nursing homes vs....
COVID-19 in nursing homes: calming the perfect storm. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020;68(10):2153-2162. doi:10.1111/jgs.16784PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 3. Grabert L, Makam AN, Grabowski DC. COVID-19 waivers of Medicare post-acute rules increased capacity but should not ...
In October 2023, Kirsch did anin-depth articleon what really happened in nursing homes. Here is what hereported: Statistics for Nursing home 12 week case Fisher Exact Test parameters: 157053 169300 31150 35590 One-sided p-value: 4.236409729747196e-12 ...
Deaths among older adults with dementia fell starkly in nursing homes and long-term care centers after COVID-19 vaccinations became available, yet remained high for those living at home, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco.
Studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic have shown that crowding in nursing homes is associated with high incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections, but this effect has not been shown for other respiratory pathogens. We aimed to measure the association between crowding in nursing homes and outbrea...