Broad-based testing could prevent ‘heartbreaking’ spread of COVID-19, operator says, based on experience
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 07, 2020
Broad-based COVID-19 testing should be made available immediately for residents and workers in senior living communities and nursing homes to address the current “heartbreaking” spread of disease in...
Reports: COVID-19 forces relocation of 94 residents from senior home, governor gives a ‘shoutout’...
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 26, 2020
Residents from St. Joseph’s Senior Home Assisted Living & Nursing Center in Woodbridge, NJ, were relocated to another long-term care community 30 miles away on Wednesday after several residents and caregivers...
Public health emergency extended until July 20, expected to last through 2021
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 22, 2021
The federal public health emergency due to COVID-19 has been extended until July 20, effective Wednesday, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
OSHA’s new COVID-19 inspection, whistleblower program targets ALFs, CCRCs and SNFs
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 15, 2021
Assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement communities and skilled nursing facilities are among the targets of a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration program designed to focus...
Changes open COVID vaccination to independent living, affordable senior housing residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 13, 2021
In a move that should open COVID-19 vaccination to independent living and affordable senior housing residents across the country, officials with the federal vaccine development, manufacturing and distribution...
With a second round of stimulus checks on the way to many Americans, the Federal Trade Commission is advising consumers to report “grabby” assisted living and nursing home operators who try to take...
AARP lobbies for pandemic-related changes at long-term care facilities
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 08, 2020
The AARP is using its second national Virtual Lobby Week in part to urge Congress to ensure that long-term care facilities are testing staff members and residents for COVID-19, providing personal protective...
Operator ‘strongly’ encourages COVID-19 testing after one resident dies, another tests positive...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 11, 2020
A Seattle senior living operator is “strongly” encouraging residents and staff members to be tested for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) after one resident died and another tested positive for the...
COVID-19 public health emergency extended again
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 15, 2022
The federal public health emergency related to COVID-19 was renewed Friday “[a]s a result of the continued consequences” of the pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday.
CDC: Mitigation measures, not symptom screening, ‘instrumental’ in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 06, 2020
Symptom screening is of limited use in identifying cases of COVID-19, so mitigation measures could be “instrumental” in preventing an outbreak in independent living and assisted living communities,...