Nursing homes left in the dark when utilities cut power to prevent wildfires
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Kate Ruder, KFF Health News
Jun 10, 2024
As preemptive power cuts become more widespread, nursing homes are being forced to evaluate their preparedness. But it shouldn’t be up to the facilities alone, according to industry officials and academics.
Also in the News for Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
Older adults spend 3 weeks each year receiving health care outside of the home … Study examines wildfire smoke pollution inside nursing homes … Seniors more hesitant to get COVID booster than flu vaccines
Climate threats grow but many nursing homes don’t know: Yale
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Kimberly Marselas
Jessica R. Towhey
Jan 11, 2023
Two new studies on wildfire and hurricane-related flooding threats to nursing homes demonstrate a need to bolster emergency preparedness in a sector where many leaders may be unaware of evolving weather-related...
CMS waives some requirements for wildfire-impacted SNFs
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 18, 2017
Agency offers blanket waiver in Southern California
Nursing home staff open their own homes to nuns fleeing wildfires
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 13, 2017
The nuns who inhabit the Carondelet Center in Brentwood, CA, typically enjoy their lush green lawn and views of the Santa Monica Mountains in the distance. But then severe wildfires threatened the nursing...
Wine country wildfires force evacuation of frail residents at CA’s largest veterans home
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Oct 13, 2017
More than 100 of the frailest residents of California’s largest veterans long-term care facility were evacuated this week amid concerns that rampant wildfires in the area could be detrimental to...
Flirting with disaster
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 17, 2012
Having once slept through a 6.7-magnitude earthquake, driven blithely through snowstorms and regularly horrified my Kansas-born husband with my lack of knowledge about tornadoes, I am far from an expert...