Specialized Information for:
Nursing HomesAssisted Living/Board & Care Home and Community Based Services
July 28, 2020
The Houston Chronicle featured a story on coronavirus case data in nursing homes. New data was released by the state of Texas showing how many residents and staff had been infected in individual nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The move to disclose the data increased transparency that advocates and relatives had long demanded.
July 27, 2020
Pennsylvania State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Margaret Barajas, is interviewed by KDKA CBS Pittsburgh on nursing homes that are not giving residents their stimulus checks and instead are using them to pay bills and debt owed to the facility.
July 20, 2020
Salli Pung, Michigan State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, was interviewed by Bridge and said that the size of a facility, chain or non-profit ownership, previous Medicare ratings and payment sources for care did not distinguish nursing homes with COVID-19 from those without it. In other words, broadly speaking, big facilities with large Medicaid populations, 5-star ratings from Medicare and chain ownership fared roughly the same against the virus as others.