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Court revives criminal COVID charges against nursing home leaders
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 28, 2023
Two former leaders of a state-run nursing home where 76 veterans died in a single COVID outbreak must face criminal charges, despite a previous ruling that they could not be held liable for elder neglect.
Whistleblowers claim they were fired for outing one of nation’s deadliest nursing home COVID outbreaks
By
John Hall
Aug 19, 2022
Two high-level state employees brought on to manage a pair of controversial state-run veterans’ homes in the early days of the pandemic filed a whistleblower lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts.
AG renews COVID-19 criminal charge pursuit against nursing home leaders
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 16, 2021
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is appealing a decision by a state judge to drop criminal charges against two nursing home officials over their roles in a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.
Let’s give vets a fighting chance
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 25, 2021
As with Afghanistan, some veterans homes have collapsed under the weight of a crisis, despite the backing of the U.S. government.
