A new online toolkit offers guidance on increasing flu vaccination coverage among workers in long-term health care facilities.

In Wisconsin, seniors are leading the charge to protect their own healthcare. Above: Residents rally outside of the Sauk County Board of Supervisors meeting in support of keeping their county-owned nursing home publicly owned.

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State leaders say they have a new plan to fight COVID-19 in nursing homes.

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The 1.3 million nursing home residents in the U.S. make up less than 0.5 percent of the nation’s population, but represent approximately 15 percent of COVID-19 related deaths to date.

To provide high-quality care for all nursing home residents, the U.S. must strengthen the nursing home workforce, improve emergency preparedness, and increase the transparency and accountability of nursing homes’ finances and operations, among other actions.

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The Corporate Whistleblower Center is urging a RN, LPN or CNA who is currently working at a long term care facility to call them at 866-714-6466 about rewards if their work place is constantly so short staffed there is no way to care for patients.

"If you are a healthcare manager-especially one who works for a nursing home, and you know your employer received a Paycheck Protection Program-PPP loan-call us at 866-714-6466 if you are certain your employer did not use the money on payroll."

The Corporate Whistleblowwer Center says, "If your bank-employer was involved in bigger Paycheck Protection Program Loans in 2020-2021 and there was no due diligence on the loans, give us a call at 866-714-6466 to discuss whistleblower rewards."

The Corporate Whistleblower Center considers Paycheck Protection Program-PPP loan fraud involving nursing homes, long term care facilities and some healthcare companies to be some of the worst instances of misuse of taxpayer money in US history.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center is urging a manager at a nursing home-skilled nursing facility or healthcare company that received a COVID PPP loan-to call them at 866-714-6466 if at least 60% of the loan was not used on payroll. Get rewarded.

"If you worked as a RN, manager or a staff member at a nursing home-long term care facility in 2020-2021 please give us a call at 866-714-6466-if your workplace was extremely short staffed. We will know if they received a PPP loan. Get rewarded!"

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Shanna LaFountain has been a nursing assistant in New England for 20 years. About two months ago, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, she stopped working. "It was an extremely hard decision," she said. LaFountain has three children and made the decision once their schools closed and their learning went online. "My son was not answering teachers, not doing assignments," she said. "I had to be home with my children." Instead of working, she gets state unemployment benefits and receives another $600 each week from the federal government. She is making more money now than when she works. LaFountain is not alone. As part of the CARES Act, the federal government added an extra $600 per week to individuals' unemployment checks. Such benefits may be available not only to those who were let go but also to those who quit their jobs due to the virus. While a Federal Reserve report said the expanded benefits provide a critical lifeline to many individuals, there is concern that the

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At least 25,600 residents and workers at US nursing homes or long-term care facilities for the elderly have died from coronavirus as of Saturday, new statistics show.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has won bipartisan praise for rallying supplies for his ravaged hospitals and helping slow the coronavirus, is coming under increasing criticism for not bringing that same level of commitment to a problem that has so far stymied him: nursing homes. In part-lecture, part-cheerleading briefings that have made him a Democratic counter to President Donald Trump, Cuomo has often seemed dismissive and resigned to defeat when asked about his state leading the nation in nursing home deaths. We've tried everything to keep it out of a nursing home, but it's virtually impossible, Cuomo told reporters. Now is not the best time to put your mother in a nursing home. That is a fact. Residents' relatives, health care watchdogs and lawmakers from both parties cite problems with testing and transparency that have prevented officials and the public from grasping the full scale of the catastrophe. And they are second-guessing a state directive that requires nursing ..

Of the nation's more than 25,000 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, more than a fifth of them -- about 5,300 -- are in New York.

The 1.3 million nursing home residents in the U.S. make up less than 0.5 percent of the nation’s population, but represent approximately 15 percent of COVID-19 related deaths to date.

Two workers approach the entrance to Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., on March 13. An association that represents nursing homes is asking for billions of dollars in federal relief funds to cope with the coronavirus crisis.; Credit: Ted S. Warren/AP

With more than 11,000 resident deaths, nursing homes have become the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. Now, they're asking the federal government for help — $10 billion worth of help.

The American Health Care Association, the trade organization for most nursing homes, called the impact on long-term care facilities "devastating." In a letter sent this week to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, they ask for the federal government to designate relief funding from the CARES Act for nursing homes the way it has for hospitals.

The money would be used for personal protective equipment, salaries for expanded staff, and hazard pay. In addition, some of the funds would make up lost revenue for nursing homes that have been unable to admit new residents because of the outbreak.

The AHCA also wants nursing homes to have more access to testing and some members of Congress want that too. This week, 87 members of the House of Representatives sent their own letter to Azar, as well as to Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulates nursing homes. The letter asks those agencies to direct states — which have received billions of dollars for increased testing — to give priority to long-term care facilities.

The letter also notes that nursing homes are now required to report their numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but that they can't meaningfully do this unless they can test everyone in the facility.

Democrats in both the House and the Senate have also introduced legislation intended to make things safer for both nursing home staff and residents. The bill would require nursing homes to take a range of actions, from providing better infection prevention, to supplying sufficient protective gear, to protecting a resident's right to return to the nursing home after they've been treated for COVID-19 at a hospital.

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The Corporate Whistleblower Center is urging an RN to call them anytime at 866-714-6466 if the healthcare facility they work at is forcing Medicare patients to undergo unnecessary medical procedures---so the healthcare facility makes more money.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center is dramatically expanding their nationwide initiative to identify healthcare workers who are employed at facilities like nursing homes who have proof of extreme short staffing-it's a multi-billion dollar problem.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center is now urging a CNA, LPN or a RN at a nursing home or a skilled nursing facility that is constantly short staffed to call them-if the owner of the facility is billing Medicaid as if they are fully staffed.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center says, "We are urging a LPN, RN or CNA with proof a nursing home is billing Medicaid as if the facility is fully staffed with caregivers-when if fact the facility is short-staffed to call us about possible rewards."

The Corporate Whistleblower Center is inviting a RN, LPN or CNA anywhere in the nation to call them at 866-714-6466 if they work far a nursing home that is so short staffed their patients are dying prematurely. This is a nationwide problem.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center is an advocate for taxpayers, healthcare workers and patients and they are extremely worried the Coronavirus will explode in our nation's nursing homes and long term care facilities-because many are short staffed.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center says, "COVID-19 was not supposed to be an opportunity for some hospitals to gouge Medicare-but we know this is happening. We are also urging states to stop dumping COVID-19 patients on nursing homes. It ends bad."