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The National Guard is administering COVID-19 tests at seven long-term care facilities in Richland County, Ohio, on June 20, the Mansfield News Journal reports.
MARION – United Church Homes (UCH) welcomed two senior living communities to its growing network of older adult communities. On March 1, UCHM entered a three-year contract to provide management ...
Becky Williams, President of SEIU District 1199, said in a news release, “Seniors and people with disabilities are suffering due to the catastrophic staffing crisis in all of Ohio’s nursing homes.
Nursing homes spent big on Ohio politics. They could be in for a big Medicaid boost. Published: Nov. 20, 2022, 5:30 a.m. A man walks out of Greenbrier Health Center, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in ...
WCPO also used this database to find out which Ohio nursing homes had the most COVID deaths. Of those 11 facilities, nine of them had a below-average staffing rating, according to Medicare.
Ohio’s nursing home industry poured at least $6.1 million into state politics and an array of dark money political groups between 2016 and 2020, an Ohio Capital Journal investigation has found.
On top of the continuing effects of COVID, nursing homes and assisted-living centers could soon face new federal rules about staffing. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that ...
Nursing home vaccinations: Low vaccination rates at nursing homes put Ohio on collision course with federal mandate Regardless, the staffing crunch is still pressing down on nursing facilities ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A bill in the Ohio House would provide nursing homes $300 million in coronavirus relief money, with no guardrails around how it would get spent. House Bill 461, sponsored by ...
Rapid testing is now in use at many Ohio nursing homes, though experiences have been mixed and the tool alone is not enough to shore up against the flood of new community-spread COVID-19 cases ...
Underscoring why they are among the first in line for vaccines, Ohio's still-spiking COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the second-highest weekly total of deaths among vulnerable, older residents of ...
Helen Paulik, age 100. It will likely be months before nursing homes know if the vaccine mandate has made staffing and safety better or worse. But at age 100, Helen Paulik is focused on tomorrow.