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Letter To Congress Stresses Need For Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes

August 20, 2023

Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes: In its June 16, 2023 letter to the United States Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) stated, “Despite years of government reports sounding the alarm about infection control lapses in nursing[...]

Nursing Home Industry Groups Say Nursing Home Care Improved During COVID-19 Pandemic

March 31, 2022

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) released a “fact sheet” on March 24, 2022 entitled “Nursing Home Quality Improvement During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in which they state: “America’s nursing home caregivers delive[...]

New York Audit Finds 4,100 Nursing Home COVID-19 Deaths Were Unreported

March 21, 2022

An audit of data collected by the New York Department of Health (DOH) regarding nursing home COVID-19 deaths that was released on March 15, 2022 found: “DOH did not provide the public with accurate COVID-19 death counts and became entangled in the undercounting of those deaths as the Executive[...]

250 Nursing Home Resident Advocacy Organizations Implore U.S. Senate To Avoid Granting Immunity To Nursing Homes

June 11, 2020

In a letter dated May 28, 2020 addressed to the leaders of the U.S. Senate, 250 organizations throughout the United States that advocate on behalf of the 1.3 million nursing home residents in the United States implored the U.S. Senate “to strongly oppose granting immunity to nursing homes duri[...]

CDC Report: One Washington State Nursing Home’s Experience With COVID-19

March 22, 2020

The CDC’s most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (March 18, 2020) entitled, “COVID-19 in a Long-Term Care Facility — King County, Washington, February 27–March 9, 2020” stated: “Introduction of COVID-19 into a long-term residential care facility in Washington r[...]

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Letter To Congress Stresses Need For Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes

Nursing Home Industry Groups Say Nursing Home Care Improved During COVID-19 Pandemic

New York Audit Finds 4,100 Nursing Home COVID-19 Deaths Were Unreported

250 Nursing Home Resident Advocacy Organizations Implore U.S. Senate To Avoid Granting Immunity To Nursing Homes

CDC Report: One Washington State Nursing Home’s Experience With COVID-19

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