nursing home A resident of a nursing home in Wikwemikong has tested positive for COVID-19 By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 19:33:04 EDT Provincial surveillance testing has returned a positive case of COVID-19 in a resident of Wikwemikong Nursing Home on Manitoulin Island. Ogimaa Duke Peltier says every staff member and resident underwent tests Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and the results are starting to come in. Full Article News/Canada/Sudbury
nursing home Maybe this is what N.S. needs? An upbeat rap video about a nursing home By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 14:50:28 EDT Classified released a music video for his song, Good News, this week featuring a pack of kids hanging out with seniors at a continuing care home in Enfield, N.S. It was filmed before the COVID-19 outbreak in the province. Full Article News/Canada/Nova Scotia
nursing home Nursing homes in the time of COVID-19 By www.jamaicaobserver.com Published On :: Thu, 7, May, 2020 07:01:00 GMT Dear Editor,I am beyond concerned that it has taken now for the minister of health to become alarmed that only 35 of 185 nursing homes in Jamaica are registered. Full Article Covid-19 Local Letters to the Editor Today's Headlines
nursing home Delaware, Newark Manor Nursing Home Reach Settlement By news.delaware.gov Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:51:07 +0000 This settlement resolves allegations that Newark Manor provided substandard and worthless care to residents of the nursing facility. Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced today that the State of Delaware has reached an agreement with Newark Manor Nursing Home (also known as Premiere Healthcare, Inc.), its owner Bruce Boyer, administrator David Boyer and former administrator Susan […] Full Article Department of Justice Department of Justice Press Releases Fraud Attorney General Kathy Jennings Delaware Department of Justice Fraud and Consumer Protection Division Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
nursing home Community Volunteers Needed to Sponsor Residents for the Holidays at Public Nursing Homes By news.delaware.gov Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:40:57 +0000 DHSS Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker visits residents at Governor Bacon Health Center. NEW CASTLE (Nov. 12, 2019) – The Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill (DHCI) in Smyrna and the Governor Bacon Health Center (GBHC) in Delaware City are asking members of the community to sponsor a resident for the holidays at either nursing […] Full Article Delaware Health and Social Services Adopt-a-Resident Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill giving back Governor Bacon Health Center holidays
nursing home DHSS Announces First Long-Term Care Facility Coronavirus-Related Death; More Cases Confirmed in Newark Nursing Home By news.delaware.gov Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:38:27 +0000 SMYRNA (March 26, 2020) – The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is announcing the first long-term care facility coronavirus-related death in Delaware and the first outbreak of positive cases in such a facility. The death of an 86-year-old male resident of Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence in Newark was reported […] Full Article News Coronavirus
nursing home Governor Carney Announces Interim Steps Allowing Small Businesses; Universal Testing in Nursing Homes By news.delaware.gov Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 17:18:16 +0000 Retail, hair dressers able to resume limited services while maintaining health guidelines WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney on Tuesday announced a series of interim steps allowing small businesses to resume limited operations effective 8:00 a.m. on Friday, May 8. The goal of the interim steps is to provide economic relief to Delaware citizens and […] Full Article Governor John Carney Office of the Governor Coronavirus Economy small business
nursing home DHSS Recommends Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities Temporarily Ban Visitors to Reduce Coronavirus Risk By news.delaware.gov Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:58:40 +0000 NEW CASTLE (March 12, 2020) – The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is recommending that all Delaware nursing homes, long-term care facilities and adult day-care centers temporarily end visitation as a way to reduce the risk of residents and clients contracting coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The recommendation follows the Centers for Disease Control and […] Full Article Delaware Emergency Management Agency Delaware Health and Social Services Division of Public Health News 2019 Novel Coronavirus Coronavirus long-term care nursing home
nursing home NY's Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll By www.startribune.com Published On :: 2020-05-09T16:00:12+00:00 New York Gov. 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. Full Article
nursing home NY's Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:47 GMT NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. 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... Full Article
nursing home NY’s Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:59 GMT New York Gov. 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 ...... Full Article
nursing home Nursing homes take action to protect residents By www.hurriyetdailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:24:42 Z Turkish elder care homes are taking measures to protect the elderly across the country as the world grapples with the continued dangers of coronavirus. Full Article Turkey
nursing home Anonymous tip 'led to the discovery of more than a dozen bodies' at US nursing home By www.smh.com.au Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:09:02 GMT Police responding to an anonymous tip found more than a dozen bodies at a nursing home in north-western New Jersey, according to reports. Full Article
nursing home Nursing Homes & Veterans' Homes Are Epicenters of Covid-19 By www.realclearpolitics.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:00:47 -0500 The overlooked epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic is our nation's nursing homes, veterans' homes, and other long-term care facilities. Full Article AM Update
nursing home Husband uses bucket truck to see wife at US nursing home after being separated by coronavirus By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-15T08:42:04Z Read our live updates on coronavirus HERE Coronavirus: The symptoms Full Article
nursing home Meghan Markle shows off growing baby bump on solo visit to Royal Variety nursing home By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2018-12-18T11:54:00Z The Duchess of Sussex brought Christmas cheer to retired artists and entertainers as she visited the Royal Variety Charity's residential nursing and care home. Full Article
nursing home NY's Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:58:09 -0400 New York Gov. 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. Full Article
nursing home Hit Hard by Covid, Nursing Home Workers Threatened to Strike—and Won By www.thenation.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:00:55 +0000 Bryce Covert Underpaid and overworked long before the pandemic, workers demanded more personal protective equipment, more stringent safety protocols, and hazard pay. The post Hit Hard by Covid, Nursing Home Workers Threatened to Strike—and Won appeared first on The Nation. Full Article
nursing home Florida nursing home fatalities spike dramatically... By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2020-05-09T15:46:37Z Florida nursing home fatalities spike dramatically... (Top headline, 15th story, link) Related stories:RECORD 103,415,000 NOT IN LABOR FORCE...20.5 MILLION JOBS VANISH IN APRIL...UNDERCOUNTED!'The government is failing us'...Trump's 2020 Jobs Bet Unravels...Dems introduce bill to give $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans...Federal Debt Tops $25 Trillion for First Time; Jumped $1 Trillion in Just 28 Days!Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report...NYPD reveals 80% of social distancing arrests have been minorities...Pandemic has widened racial and political divisions...Post-Outbreak Crime Surge?Armed With Swabs, Covid Hunters Stalk Their Prey...Fight Over Death Toll Opens Grim New Front in Election Battle...Anxious About Virus, Older Voters Grow More Wary of Trump...U.S. DEATHS: 77,313...WORLD SICK MAP...AMERICA SICK MAP... Full Article
nursing home Alex Beresford shares heartbreak after step-grandmother 'dies alone' in nursing home By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-16T08:26:37Z The cause of death is currently unknown Full Article
nursing home Coronavirus update: New York City nursing home reports 98 deaths as FDA approves experimental drug By www.abc.net.au Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 00:22:01 +1000 US President Donald Trump seemingly increases his estimate of possible deaths from coronavirus to 100,000, up from 70,000 earlier in the week, as South Africa, Spain and some American states loosen their restrictions. These are the key coronavirus developments from today. Full Article Infectious Diseases (Other) Respiratory Diseases COVID-19 Diseases and Disorders Health Lockdown Epidemics and Pandemics Environment Government and Politics Business Economics and Finance Globalisation - Economy
nursing home Armed Forces deploys almost all of its medical capacity against pandemic in Quebec nursing homes By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Thu, 7 May 2020 12:46:19 EDT The Canadian military has stripped bases across the country of their uniformed medical personnel to support long-term care homes in Quebec that have been overrun by COVID-19. Full Article News/Politics
nursing home Nation’s Largest Nursing Home Pharmacy and Drug Manufacturer to Pay $112 Million to Settle False Claims Act Cases By www.justice.gov Published On :: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:03:14 EST The nation’s largest nursing home pharmacy, Omnicare Inc. of Covington, Kentucky, will pay $98 million, and drug manufacturer, IVAX Pharmaceuticals of Weston, Florida, will pay $14 million to resolve allegations that Omnicare engaged in kickback schemes with several parties, including IVAX. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home U.S. Files Suit Against Johnson &s Largest Nursing Home Pharmacy By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:07:19 EST The United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of New Brunswick, N.J., and two of its subsidiaries, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Two Atlanta-Based Nursing Home Chains and Their Principals Pay $14 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:07:12 EST Atlanta-based Mariner Health Care Inc. and SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC, as well as their principals, Leonard Grunstein, Murray Forman and Rubin Schron, have agreed to pay the United States and several states $14 million. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Pennsylvania-based Lender to Pay U.S. $3.9 Million to Resolve False Claims Liability Related to Two Nursing Home Mortgages By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:48:42 EST Capmark Finance LLC in Horsham, Pa., has agreed to pay the United States $3.9 million, to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit, the Justice Department announced today. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Former Employee of Nursing Home Company Operating in North Carolina and Virginia Pleads Guilty to Kickback Schemes and Tax Evasion By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:18:33 EDT The former director of corporate maintenance and renovations at Medical Facilities of America Inc. pleaded guilty today to accepting kickbacks and evading taxes. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Former Employee of Nursing Home Company Operating in North Carolina and Virginia Sentenced to Serve 63 Months in Prison for Kickback Schemes and Tax Evasion By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:30:30 EDT The former director of corporate maintenance and renovations at Medical Facilities of America Inc. (MFA) was today sentenced to serve 63 months in prison for accepting kickbacks from contractors and evading federal income taxes. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Nursing Home Operator to Pay $48 Million to Resolve Allegations That Six California Facilities Billed for Unnecessary Therapy By www.justice.gov Published On :: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:11:09 EST The Ensign Group Inc., a skilled nursing provider based in Mission Viejo, Calif., that operates nursing homes across the western U.S. has agreed to pay $48 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted to Medicare false claims for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Alabama Pest Control Company and Its Owner Plead Guilty to Unlawful Application of Pesticides at Georgia Nursing Homes By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:00:10 EDT Steven A. Murray, 54, of Pelham, Ala., and his company, Bio-Tech Management Inc., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Macon, Ga., to charges of conspiracy, unlawful use of pesticides, false statements and mail fraud in connection with the misapplication of pesticides in Georgia nursing homes. Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Nation’s Largest Nursing Home Pharmacy Company to Pay $124 Million to Settle Allegations Involving False Billings to Federal Health Care Programs By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:45:39 EDT Omnicare Inc., the nation’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to nursing homes, has agreed to pay $124.24 million for allegedly offering improper financial incentives to skilled nursing facilities in return for their continued selection of Omnicare to supply drugs to elderly Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, the Justice Department announced today Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination Claim Against New York Nursing Home By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:25:00 EDT The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Isabella Geriatric Center (IGC), a nursing home located in New York City, resolving a claim that IGC engaged in a pattern or practice of citizenship discrimination during the employment eligibility reverification process in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Full Article OPA Press Releases
nursing home Nursing home pharmacy to pay $476K settlement to Mass. after kickback charges By www.bizjournals.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:27:51 +0000 The nation’s largest pharmacy serving elder care facilities will pay Massachusetts nearly half a million dollars to settle allegations that it got kickbacks more than eight years ago from Abbott Laboratories to promote the anti-seizure drug, Depakote. The settlement was signed by Omnicare, a pharmacy services company that was acquired by CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) in August 2015. The $476,216 payment to Massachusetts is part of a $28 million multi-state settlement that included 47 states… Full Article
nursing home How Safe Are Nursing Homes Near Me? This Tool Will Help You Find Out. By tracking.feedpress.it Published On :: 2020-05-06T18:00:00-04:00 by Charles Ornstein and Lena V. Groeger ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Nursing home residents have been among those hardest hit by the new coronavirus. In some states, more than half of the recorded deaths have been long-term care residents. Some of the homes have been cited for putting residents at “immediate jeopardy” of harm or death, our analysis showed. And many of the affected homes have been previously written up for violating federal standards. That’s true in California, New Jersey and New York. We’re updating Nursing Home Inspect to include more information about nursing homes across the country, including past problems with infection control practices, and which ones have had cases of COVID-19 among residents or staff. We introduced this resource in 2012 as a way to search through tens of thousands of nursing home inspection reports to find problems and trends. You can easily compare the nursing homes in your state based on how many times they have been cited for violating infection control protocols in the past three inspection cycles (roughly three years). We’ve also added data from The Washington Post on homes with COVID-19 cases. Nursing Home Inspect also allows you to sort by the number of health deficiencies cited by regulators; the number of serious deficiencies per home (that is, deficiencies in which patients were put in immediate jeopardy of harm); the amount of fines imposed; and how often the government has suspended payments to the home for new patients, another type of penalty. Our data is from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which has its own website called Nursing Home Compare. We’ve taken the information and organized it into an easy-to-use resource for families and residents, as well as researchers and other journalists. Our site includes: • State pages: Every state has its own section that allows you to compare all of the homes in a state on a variety of indicators. • Individual nursing home pages: Every home has a section listing all of the health deficiencies identified within the past three survey cycles (roughly three years). The full text of these deficiency reports, if available, can be accessed via links from this page to CMS. Each home’s page also has ownership status — whether for-profit, government-run or nonprofit — and whether the home has been labeled by the government as a Special Focus Facility, meaning that it has many more problems than other homes. We’ve also labeled Special Focus Facility candidates, which meet the criteria to be a special focus facility but haven’t yet been designated as one. (We only include health deficiencies, not fire and safety violations, in this database.) • State-by-state maps: The main page of the app shows how states compare in terms of the percentage of homes with at least one serious deficiency, the average fine paid by homes in the state, and the percentage of homes in each state with at least one infection-related deficiency. • Top 20 Lists: We’ve listed the homes that have paid the most in fines in the nation and those with the highest number of serious deficiencies. If homes violate federal standards, CMS may impose fines or suspend Medicare/Medicaid payments to the nursing home for new residents until the facility corrects the deficiency. If problems persist or are not fixed, CMS can end its agreement with the nursing home. Additional details about CMS’ approach to enforcement can be found here. Nursing Home Inspect continues to allow you to search through nearly 80,000 inspection reports by keywords, such as “choke” or “maggots,” to look for issues you care about. These search results can be sorted by date, city, state or severity of the deficiency. Nursing homes are inspected on both a regular schedule and when there is a complaint. Inspectors typically work for state agencies paid by Medicare. If they find problems, known as deficiencies, they rank them on a scale of A to L, the most severe. The vast majority are either labeled D or E. What you won’t find on these pages are self-reported quality measures for each home. Those can be found on Nursing Home Compare. We also don’t list the state sanctions imposed against homes because those are not centrally collected. For information on penalties within a given state, you should consult the state agency that regulates nursing homes. The federal government has a list of contacts available here. When reading through inspection reports, it is a good idea to keep in mind the caveats we’ve outlined previously. How We Combined Data Sources To compile our app, we used different datasets: a listing of all Medicare-certified nursing homes, inspection violations and penalties, and deficiency report narratives. We merged spreadsheets containing findings from routine inspections and those identified during complaint visits and kept only health violations, not fire safety violations. We used each home’s unique identification code to match penalties imposed to the dates of their corresponding inspections so we could display that data together for each home. (We also noted some cases in which a penalty date did not have a corresponding inspection in the database.) You can find the data we used on these sites: • For a list of nursing homes: https://data.medicare.gov/Nursing-Home-Compare/Provider-Info/4pq5-n9py • For penalties: https://data.medicare.gov/Nursing-Home-Compare/Penalties/g6vv-u9sr • For health deficiency information: https://data.medicare.gov/Nursing-Home-Compare/Health-Deficiencies/r5ix-sfxw • For deficiency report narratives (updated in April 2020): http://downloads.cms.gov/files/Full-Statement-of-Deficiencies-April-2020.zip Full Article
nursing home Op-Ed: We allowed coronavirus to ravage nursing homes. But there's still time to save lives By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 06:00:22 -0400 Nursing facilities account for a large percentage of COVID-19 deaths. Better protection and testing can change that. Full Article
nursing home Letters to the Editor: The agony of having family in locked-down nursing homes By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 06:00:34 -0400 If nursing homes will remain closed until a COVID-19 vaccine is available, there will be no family visits for more than a year. That's intolerable. Full Article
nursing home Vice President Mike Pence torched after jokingly asking to carry empty boxes at nursing home 'just for the camera' By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:18:25 GMT Vice President Mike Pence got roasted after being caught by a live microphone jokingly offering to carry empty boxes "just for the camera" into a health-care facility treating coronavirus cases. Full Article
nursing home Coronavirus outbreak: Most nursing homes restart after warning, claims BMC By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 28 Apr 2020 01:34:29 GMT The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday claimed that around 75 per cent of the nursing homes in the city have restarted services, after its warning of cancelling their licences if they did not do so, on Saturday. The municipal commissioner has ordered the cancellation of licences of the remaining 25 per cent nursing homes. Action will also be taken against private clinics who continue to remain shut, under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. Warning issuesThe associations of doctors, nursing homes have expressed fear to work during the COVID-19 pandemic without proper safety kits and strict guidelines. The BMC has several times offered to provide safety kits but most private clinics and nursing homes remain closed due to fear of transmission of COVID-19. On Saturday, the BMC warned nursing homes and clinics to restart immediately and refer patients who have symptoms of COVID-19 to its centres. On Monday, the BMC claimed that out of 1,416 nursing homes, 1,068 have restarted their service. "Out of 99 dialysis centres, 89 are working," said an officer with the health department of the BMC. According to the press note issued by the civic corporation, the municipal commissioner has ordered the health department to start the process of cancelling licences of the 348 nursing homes which haven't started services yet. Mayor in nurse's uniform Mayor Kishori Pednekar visited Nair hospital to meet the nurses Kishori Pednekar, mayor of Mumbai and a former nurse, donned on a nurse's uniform and visited the COVID-19-only Nair hospital on Monday morning. She was there to encourage nurses. The mayor will visit Sion hospital on Tuesday to communicate with nurses. Pednekar followed social distancing norms during her visit. "I was a nurse by profession and am aware of their challenges. I am getting many calls from nurses and their parents who expressed fear. This is a challenging time and we all should fight the pandemic," said Pednekar. Catch up on all the latest Mumbai news, crime news, current affairs, and a complete guide from food to things to do and events across Mumbai. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates. Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news Full Article
nursing home Indian girl brings smile on withered faces of US nursing home residents amid COVID-19 lockdown By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 24 Apr 2020 05:56:40 GMT Washington: Girls her age play Candy Crush or like watching cartoons, but 15-year-old Hita Gupta peps up hundreds of lonely Americans, including the elderly and children, marooned in nursing homes due to the COVID-19 lockdown by sending them gift packs and spirit-lifting notes. The 10th-grade Indian-American student from Pennsylvania's Conestoga High School has an NGO 'Brightening A Day' and is using it to spread love, hope and joy among America's nursing homes' residents, especially senior citizens, to help them keep at bay their boredom arising from the COVID-19 restrictions. Gupta brightens up their lives by sending them handwritten notes and gift packs containing puzzle and colouring books and a packet colour pencils. "It saddens me to think of how lonely or depressed many nursing home residents feel because they cannot see their loved ones. Our seniors are already one of the most isolated groups. A research has shown that more than 40 per cent of seniors regularly feel lonely," Gupta told PTI in an email interaction. "During this uncertain time, which is causing panic among many seniors, it's our responsibility to let them know that they are not alone. I initially started sending gift packs to nursing homes using self-funding. Now, I have sent them to residents of 16 local nursing homes," she said. Each gift pack contains one puzzle book, one colouring book, and a pack of colour pencils/crayons, Gupta said. "It also contains an uplifting note written by my 9-year-old brother Divit Gupta," she said. Her NGO has reached more than 2,700 kids and seniors in 50 hospitals and nursing homes in seven different States in the US with hand-made cards on holidays like Christmas and Valentine's Day. "We have also sent school supplies and cards to orphanages in India," Gupta said. Gupta's initiative has won her praise from one and all. "Need some inspiration? 15-year-old Hita Gupta, from Pennsylvania, USA, is brightening the lives of nursing home residents with gift packs through her NGO, Brighten A Day," the US Embassy in New Delhi wrote on its Facebook page. "She aims to lift the spirits of those who are in need of some cheer by sending them love, hope, and joy through cards and gifts. During the COVID-19 lockdown period, she is sending handwritten notes and gift packs to cheer the residents and help them overcome loneliness and isolation. More power to you Hita!" the embassy said. Nursing homes throughout the US are limiting the interaction of senior citizens who remain mostly confined to their rooms. Outsiders are also prohibited form visiting them, resulting in feelings of loneliness and isolation in many of them. The US is the worst affected country from the coronavirus, with 842,000 infections and over 46,000 deaths reported so far. According to Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, eight in every 10 deaths due to the coronavirus reported in the US are adults, and people who are 65 years old or above. Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 185,000 lives and infected more than 2.6 million people, according to the Johns Hopkins University data. Full Article
nursing home Urban Poor Affected Most by Nursing Home Closures By www.medindia.net Published On :: While wealthier people have chosen alternatives to urban nursing homes, the urban poor still depend on them for long-term care. A new study led by researchers Full Article
nursing home Impact Of Medication Errors on Nursing Home Residents By www.medindia.net Published On :: Despite the fact that tmedication errors remain fairly common, a new analysis points to surprisingly low rates of serious impacts from medication errors affecting nursing home residents. Full Article
nursing home Bain Capital makes $1bn bet on Japan’s nursing homes By www.ft.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:39:47 GMT Private equity bid for Nichii Gakkan could set a template for future management buyouts Full Article
nursing home HENRY DEEDES watches as Matt Hancock vows to end nursing homes scandal By Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:57:44 +0100 HENRY DEEDES - There was was a tweaked sense of humility about the Health Secretary as he entered the No 10 State Dining Room to address the social care crisis, as highlighted by the Mail. Full Article
nursing home Woman had to rescue her dad, 82, from Queens nursing home 'in the dead of the night' By Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 19:16:16 +0100 Terrified residents, families and staff of the Queens Adult Care Center have watched helplessly as COVID-19 runs rampant. They say management lied about the extent of its spread. Full Article
nursing home Chiefs guard and doctor Laurent Duvernay-Tardif takes job at a nursing home to combat COVID-19 By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:16:40 GMT Kansas City Chiefs right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is now on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic while working at a long-term care facility in his native Quebec, Canada. Full Article
nursing home Victorian nursing home in lockdown after a member of staff tests positive for coronavirus By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 07:57:38 GMT The employee at Grant Lodge in Bacchus Marsh, about 50 kilometres north of Melbourne , was screened for coronavirus on Saturday and all the nursing home residents are now being tested. Full Article
nursing home Woman who stabbed MLK is now 98 in New York nursing home By Published On :: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:40:10 +0100 Izola Curry, who stabbed Martin Luther King with a letter opener in 1958, is now living as a 98-year-old at a New York City nursing home. Full Article
nursing home Amy Schumer and the family take a walk after saying 'Hi' to her father from outside his nursing home By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:24:52 GMT Amy, 38, and company were getting some fresh air together after visiting her dad Gordon from a safe distance during another family walk over the weekend. Full Article
nursing home FOUR more residents at coronavirus-stricken nursing home die of COVID-19 By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:52:15 GMT In total, 11 residents at the Newmarch House in Penrith, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, have now died from the deadly respiratory infection. Full Article
nursing home Nursing home workers post video of themselves taunting a 91-year-old great grandmother with dementia By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:51:44 GMT Brayan Cortez and Jamie Montesa were fired from the Abington of Glenview following the cruel video post, shot four days before Christmas. Full Article