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Infection Control Decisions But that changed after COVID-19 outbreak in a Washington state nursing home, ultimately resulting in 37 COVID-19 deaths. Many U.S. nursing homes began voluntarily limiting visitors. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued nationwide rules restricting visito...
Levin described how some facilities were “poorly staffed or undersupplied” and often lacked infection-control policies even before COVID-19 struck. CORONAVIRUS EXPOSES FATAL FLAWS IN NURSING HOME INDUSTRY: GERALDO RIVERA “The coronavirus strikes and it finds its victims – elderly nursing home resi...
This Cuomo nursing homes policy was enacted in line with federal guidelines to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. However, the report concluded 4,000 nursing home residents died as a result. A family blamed this policy for the death of a Navy veteran who contracted COVID-19 in the spri...
This Medical News article discusses the mental and physical effects of infection-control lockdowns on nursing home residents during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Point Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Residents of Connecticut Nursing Homes ...
home-care nurseA home-care nurse listening to a patient's lungs with a stethoscope. Geriatric nursing is one of the fastest-growing areas of nursing practice. This growth matchesdemographicneed. For example, projections in the United States suggest that longer life expectancies and the impact of...
year, anindependent investigation, commissioned by current New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, found that although Cuomo's nursing home response policy was based on "the best available data at the time," communication to the public was poor and caused anxiety for family members of nursing...
All the testing in the world is for naught if staff don’t adhere to the basic, longstanding infection control practices that the federal government has had in place for years.” Mark Parkinson, head of the nursing home trade group that produced the study, said the problem is bigger. “...
"Workers in nursing homes are at risk of occupational exposure. They also are a risk of bringing infection into the nursing home from the community and taking it out." Funding for additional staff at nursing homes also would help bolster infection control, experts said. It takes a lot of ...
A person’s rights as a nursing home resident essentially mirror the rights they had outside the facility. Patients might have less control over their lives because of their physical or mental condition, but that doesn’t make it acceptable for anyone else to dominate, intimidate, or exert aut...