COVID-19

The national reporting system for nursing homes to submit COVID-19 vaccination data has set webinar dates to review important changes to the system.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday disclosed nine $1 million grants that will support long COVID clinics in the country. The grants aim to expand access and care, create new delivery...

Employees at defunct nursing home get billed thousands for COVID tests … CDC announces recommendations for upcoming respiratory illness season … Harvard study finds ideal sleeping temp for seniors

As the US approved new COVID-19 booster shots, a recent report revealed that the majority of cases of the BA.2.86 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in England were a result of a nursing home outbreak. This demonstrates...

HHS reaches agreement with drugmaker on next generation of COVID treatments favored by nursing homes … Take blood pressure readings while patient lies down for better risk prediction: AHA … Encouraging...

The end of the nationwide healthcare worker requirement came as good news to many who saw it as an obstacle to hiring. Yet experts warned that the federal change could lead to new and potentially costly...

The risk of developing long COVID was higher for the Alpha, Delta and wild-type variants of COVID-19 — and lower with omicron, according to new research.

A new report finds that a new COVID-19 variant — BA.2.86, or Pirola — may not be as contagious than originally thought. That’s good news for long-term care communities, who have been told to brace...

Amazon Prime, GoodRx can save millions on generics … Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 linked to clotting proteins … Mushroom component in psilocybin helps depression, study finds … Some airports...

Rates of people contracting SARS-CoV-2 in the hospital were similar to other hospital-acquired infections. But when the number of infections that began in the community was higher, there was an increase...