The new plan for Pennsylvania nursing homes is to test everybody. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because it sounds like the old plan. At least in the shorthand. The order issued Monday by ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - There are new questions about Covid-19 tests being sent to nursing homes by the federal government. Officials announced last month they’re sending tests to every nursing home ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that nursing home staff that refuse to comply with a new rule ordering biweekly coronavirus testing “shouldn’t work” in that facility. “Oh, that’s a problem. If the ...

To improve learning among nursing students, a group of UB researchers has turned to the kindergarten classroom for help. In a new pilot study led by M. Susan Grinslade, assistant dean for ...

If Karen Klink wants to see her mother at the Redondo Beach memory care facility where she lives, she needs to hand over a negative test for the virus. But as Klink hunted online for appointments for ...

Jersey City officials tested every resident of the Alaris Health nursing home at Hamilton Park for coronavirus, after allegations that the facility’s management created an unsafe environment for staff ...

WASHINGTON — With deaths mounting at the nation’s nursing homes, the White House strongly recommended to governors Monday that all residents and staff at such facilities be tested for the coronavirus ...

They will be sent enough tests to screen each resident and staff member weekly, as well as visitors if appropriate for the facility. The Department of Health and Human Services is set to distribute ...

ALBANY — They’re trying to get the horse back in the barn. A month after ordering nursing homes to take coronavirus patients, the state Health Department is finally — and quietly — providing them with ...

Nursing homes that conduct rapid, on-site testing of residents who exhibit flu-like symptoms can lead to earlier detection of outbreaks and reduce hospitalization rates, according to new research.

TALLAHASSEE — TALLAHASSEE - Nearly 70 percent of the state’s nursing homes will receive rapid test kits from the federal government in the coming weeks after being identified by regulators as having ...