Residents

State’s LTC facilities reminded not to refuse admission to COVID-positive residents … New USPSTF guidance: Clinicians should provide individualized dietary counseling … Allegations of fabricated...

Residents had a relatively high risk of post-vaccination events such as fever after a third COVID-19 vaccine dose, a new study finds.

Results from hundreds of facilities demonstrate not only the value of booster vaccinations, but that there may be an ongoing need for additional shots in the long-term care population.

In an unusual study across three nursing homes early in the pandemic, no COVID-19-related case clusters or deaths could be found among residents who were chronically on ventilators.

The rate of schizophrenia diagnoses rose significantly for Black nursing home residents with dementia after the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care launched in 2012, a new analysis finds.

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Nursing homes are being encouraged to quarantine residents who leave the facility for more than 24 hours under updated guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More than 430 nursing homes saw their first-ever COVID cases in early 2021, evidence that continued infection control measures are needed, and despite phenomenal declines in facility rates, says the U.S....

Urban location, greater percentage of African American residents, and larger facility size are some of the factors linked to the likelihood of COVID‐19 infections in eldercare facilities.

Three in ten Ziegler survey respondents report no cases, and most say 2% or fewer residents and staff have tested positive. Meanwhile, four in ten say they’re easing lockdown restrictions.