nursing homes

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response

Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated

Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes

Nursing homes across the country are still reporting scattered COVID-19 outbreaks and COVID-associated deaths, albeit at much smaller rates than during the height of the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic created “crisis”-level worker shortages at many U.S. long-term care facilities and nursing homes, as workers were sidelined by illness, quarantine or childcare challenges. But a review by the News4 I-Team found it also exposed long-term staffing shortages that many experts say are likely to remain even after the pandemic subsides.

The coronavirus pandemic devastated so many parts of our community but was especially hard for those living and working in long-term care facilities. Health care workers in nursing homes were pushed to the max as COVID-19 spread. But while death rates from the virus in nursing homes have declined, an investigation by Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team found another...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced steps to encourage nursing home residents and staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine

New numbers from AARP show Virginia is struggling to control the coronavirus in nursing homes with the second highest COVID-19 death rate in the country.

Despite the vaccine rollout, new COVID-19 cases are trending upwards in Virginia. And new numbers from AARP show the Commonwealth is still struggling to control the virus in nursing homes, with the second highest COVID-19 death rate in the country. Northern Virginia bureau reporter Drew Wilder looks into the reasons why.

Nursing homes have to publicly disclose their vaccination rates for flu and pneumonia, but there’s no similar mandate for COVID-19 shots

Nursing homes and other elderly residences battered by COVID-19 are easing lockdown-like restrictions more than a year into the pandemic

As the coronavirus made an end-of-the-year surge across New York, some nursing homes proved especially helpless at stopping the spread of COVID-19, despite having nine months to stockpile protective equipment and refine preventative measures

When lockdown began last March, many seniors had to watch behind windows in an effort to remain safe. New numbers from inside nursing homes show that the COVID-19 vaccines are working.

Promising new numbers from inside nursing homes show the COVID-19 vaccines are working. News4’s Aimee Cho spoke to some very happy senior citizens in Prince William County about how life has changed since getting the shot.

The chorus of calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation within his own party grew louder again Tuesday, a day after a third woman came forward to allege inappropriate physical behavior by New York’s commander in chief. The latest allegations involved an unwanted physical advance at a 2019 wedding. Cuomo has drawn widespread bipartisan rebuke over the harassment allegations, which...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was expected to address the public on Monday and deliver another coronavirus briefing he has become synonymous with over the past 12 months, but this time to mark one year since the state reported its first case. Instead, the governor, marred by controversy, was noticeably absent. The fallout over multiple sexual harassment allegations followed the governor into…

The comments from Democrat Ron Kim come as a senior official tells NBC New York that the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI have launched a preliminary investigation into the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing home-related data.

Some television shows age much better than others. For CNN, last spring’s prime-time banter between Chris Cuomo and his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, looks worse in hindsight as the governor’s administration is questioned about its role in failing to disclose the true number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. CNN is covering that story, but not on Chris...

For the Isabella Geriatric Center at the northern end of Manhattan, the coronavirus has been a calamity, suspected of killing nearly 100 residents at the 705-bed nursing home. The death toll forced it to store bodies in a refrigerated truck and prompted U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat to call for an investigation into whether nursing homes have withheld information from regulators…

The news that COVID-19 took a far greater toll on New York nursing homes than previously reported highlights just how vulnerable these institutions are. Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition, joined LX News to explain how the pandemic has highlighted a system that is already malfunctioning due to insufficient staffing.