Ordinance directs healthcare industry to redirect profits toward worker compensation
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 05, 2022
Assisted living community employees are among the Los Angeles healthcare workers who may be covered under a proposed minimum wage ordinance aimed at forcing the industry to direct some profits toward worker...
Nursing home provider settles COVID-19 vaccine fraud suit for $1.75M, denies allegations
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 05, 2022
MorseLife Health System has paid $1.75 million dollars to settle a lawsuit that claimed the nursing home defrauded a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program. The provider allegedly administered...
Fauci has ‘rebound’ COVID after Paxlovid treatment
Jun 30, 2022
The director of the NIAID says the drug kept him out of the hospital, however.
Fatigue, brain fog, anxiety prevalent with long COVID
Jun 28, 2022
Significant associations were seen for concentration and attention, as well as memory issues, with the complaint of brain fog.
Little difference seen in weight changes before, after COVID-19 shutdown
Jun 16, 2022
Significant increases were seen in weight during preshutdown and postshutdown years, but no significant difference was noted between the two.
COVID-19 vaccines cut mortality with heart failure
Jun 16, 2022
Those who are partially vaccinated and unvaccinated face the same increased risk, whereas boosted and fully vaccinated adults fare best.
More clinical benefits of molnupiravir ID’d in COVID-19
Jun 07, 2022
Compared with placebo, normalization of C-reactive protein and oxygen saturation was faster, with improvements seen on day 3 of treatment.
Sharing lessons from the pandemic
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 06, 2022
Brookdale Senior Living President and CEO Lucinda “Cindy” Baier discusses her new book, “Heroes Work Here: An Extraordinary Story of Courage, Resilience and Hope from the Front Lines of COVID-19.”
With questions about whether any further COVID-19 relief legislation will be passed this year, Argentum said Tuesday that it is focusing on a federal workplace safety rule, financial relief and workforce...
Multisystem abnormalities persist after COVID-19 hospitalization
May 31, 2022
Persisting evidence of cardio-renal involvement and hemostasis pathway activation was reported at 28 to 60 days after discharge.