Tag: Nursing Homes / Elder Care

Officials hope requirement will be an incentive for these facilities to keep giving shots even as the pandemic wanes

22 infections identified among 12 residents and 10 staff members at 15 skilled nursing facilities; no facility-associated secondary transmission reported

Compared with Jan. to Feb. 2020, prescriptions for antipsychotics, antidepressants, trazodone up from March to Sept. 2020

Estimated effectiveness 63 percent for period from more than 14 days after the first dose through seven days after the second dose

Lawsuit claims nursing home company submitted false information to the ratings program

Adjusted mortality rates significantly declined from high of 20.9 percent in early April to 11.2 percent in early November

Mean and median annual turnover rates were about 128 and 94 percent, respectively, with considerable variation by facility, state

82 percent decline reported in new COVID-19 cases among residents at nursing homes since the peak during the week of Dec. 20

Five patients tested positive in outbreaks in July and October 2020; disease severity worse during second outbreak

From late December to early February, new cases among U.S. nursing home residents fell by more than 80 percent