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AHCA/NCAL
Veterans’ homes, government-run nursing homes struggle with staffing shortages
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PennLive
Thousands waiting for nursing home care in Pa. because of worker shortage, report says
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior living will need 3 million workers by 2040: Argentum
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Wisconsin Watch
Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch
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Denver 7
By the numbers: How pandemic-induced staffing issues are leaving Colorado seniors out in the cold
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RI News today
Nursing home workforce crisis deepens with minimum staffing standards – Herb Weiss
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NPR
Fixing the health care worker shortage may be something Congress can agree on
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
‘Creativity just isn’t enough’ to cover costs of care without more pay, alarmed nursing home leaders tell officials
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Provider groups back reintroduced bill expanding veterans’ access to assisted living
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
A loud and clear message on staffing mandates
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Nurse.org
New bill could allow non-certified nursing aides to work in nursing homes for 2 years
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U.S. News & World Report
WHO, CDC study: Vast majority of COVID-19 deaths among older adults
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior living employment recovery continues to lag behind other healthcare providers
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NBC News
Small-town nursing homes closing amid staffing crunch
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Modern Healthcare
AHCA sounds alarm on nursing home staffing crisis
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Immigration policy proposals encouraging as staffing solution, senior living provider groups say
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Senators call on CMS to end push for mandatory staffing in nursing homes
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The Hill
More than 8 in 10 nursing homes face staffing shortages: survey Three years into the pandemic the staffing shortage in nursing hom
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CNBC
Biden administration extends Covid public health emergency as highly infectious omicron XBB.1.5 spreads
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Skilled Nursing News
Executive outlook 2023: A new playbook for skilled nursing
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Skilled Nursing News
80% of nursing home providers 'very concerned' about possible federal staffing mandate
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Sandwich generation’s plans to pay for parents’ senior living could jeopardize their own futures: survey
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Agency staffing cost assisted living providers $4 million in one state in 2022: report
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Skilled Nursing News
$11.3 billion needed to meet proposed federal minimum staffing mandate
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McKnight's Home Care
Informal caregivers are our lifeline; let’s support them
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U.S. News
Nursing home facts and statistics 2023
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Time to get rid of the nurse-aide training prohibition, CMS!
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CNET
What I've learned about the financial toll of taking care of aging relatives
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McKnight’s Senior Living
19 percent worried they can’t afford senior living due to inflation: survey
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Delaware Public Media
Addressing the nursing workforce shortage crisis
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ABC News
COVID hospitalizations at least 3 times higher among seniors than other age groups: CDC
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Price of proposed nursing home staffing mandate? Try $11.3B a year, new AHCA report finds
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AHCA/NCAL
Updated report: Additional funding for workers needed to meet a potential nursing home staffing minimum mandate
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior housing future must prioritize affordability, connected health services, experts say
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior housing future must prioritize affordability, connected health services, experts say
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AHCA/NCAL
What they are saying: One-size-fits-all minimum staffing mandate will not improve care, solve labor shortages in nursing homes
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USC
A public health crisis: Staffing shortages in health care
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
State’s access-to-care problems reflect the country’s nursing home problems
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Colorado Politics
Senior care facilities face workforce crisis
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Skilled Nursing News
‘The Haves and Have Nots’: Omega closely monitors moves to make medicaid rate bumps permanent
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Skilled Nursing News
American hospital association throws weight behind nursing home TNA legislation
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Providers, states grapple with billion-dollar needs ahead of federal staffing minimum
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Axios
Axios AM deep dive
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Brookings
The role of immigrants in the market for elder care
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PHI National
What direct care workers say about their daily work
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Axios
Hospitals seek more aid to house patients they can't discharge
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McKnight’s Senior Living
New law creates oversight of staffing agencies but doesn’t protect against ‘price-gouging’
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Long-term care picks up 11,000 jobs but recovery resembles roller-coaster ride
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ACL
ACL launches national center to strengthen the direct care workforce
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
The minimum staffing cloud looms. Will any sunlight shine through?
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Health Care Dive
How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations
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Kiplinger
4 potential ‘Silver Linings’ for seniors in 2023
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McKnight’s Senior Living
‘Staffing and labor challenges do persist,’ provider survey finds
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
National respiratory care week, October 23-October 29, 2022
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Provider groups look to shape regulations after funding victories
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CBS News
CDC says some nursing homes and hospitals no longer need to require universal masking
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Axios
Home health, nursing homes look for year-end breaks in spending deal
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HHPR News
Kansas nursing homes are closing because they can’t find enough workers
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WSJ
Another inflation stress: rising costs of senior-living homes strain families
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AHA News
AHA urges congressional action to bolster health care workforce
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The Atlantic
The burnout crisis in pink-collar work
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The Atlantic
Warning signs about the first post-pandemic winter
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Health Day
Assisted living will become financially out of reach for many middle-class Americans
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Providers, Congress ratchet up pressure on CMS to extend nurse-aide certification waiver
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Health Affairs
The forgotten middle: Many middle-income seniors will have insufficient resources for housing and health care
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McKnight’s Senior Living
3 key audiences to communicate with amid a senior living crisis
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MedCity News
Report: More than 11M middle-income seniors won't be able to afford long-term care by 2033
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Yin and Yang. Tit for tat. Whatever you call it, nursing homes swing in the balance
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NORC
Many middle-income seniors will not be able to pay for long-term care and housing in 10 years
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PHI National
These stats on direct care workers should galvanize people
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NPR
Meet the 78-year-old bringing authentically Filipino care to Sacramento-area seniors
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Skilled Nursing News
Hurricane Ian hits nursing homes already beset by staffing crisis
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Fierce Healthcare
Nursing shortage looms large and projected to intensify in next 18 months: report
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The Washington Post
Worker shortages are fueling America's biggest labor crises
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AHCA/NCAL
PHI releases new report on direct care workforce
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CNN
Fewer children faced food insecurity last year, but more elder Americans did
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Leading Age
Leading Age supports and celebrates vital aging services professionals during national workforce development month
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Lack of data makes it difficult to address workforce challenges: report
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Long-term care accounts for 54% of healthcare bankruptcies this year
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Politico
HHS says it plans to extend COVID-19 public health emergency
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Another state surpasses 10% nursing home closure rate
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Forbes
Caregiving is crucial: How to support caregivers and why it matters so much
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AHCA/NCAL
AHCA/NCAL announces 2022 award recipients
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Pacifica Senior Living
Know the signs of heat exhaustion: 7 tips to beat the heat this summer
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AHCA/NCAL
New report projects without assistance, nursing home workforce recovery will not occur until at least 2026
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Newsweek
Dog 'Loving her new life' after being adopted by assisted living facility
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The Hill
Around half older Americans can't afford essential expenses: report
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Politico
The crisis facing nursing homes, assisted living and home care for America's elderly
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nursing homes in better position to handle new COVID variant
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over and it's still dangerous, especially for older people
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
CMS to post 'up-to-date' COVID booster shot data next
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
CMS doubles down: Surveyors do not have to be COVID vaccinated
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
On PDPM cuts, Congress 'stands ready' to exert its authority—but where's the checkbook?
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Market Watch
Seniors head back to retirement communities as COVID lingers—'I just didn't want to be alone'
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Ageism could be even more harmful to older adults than previously thought
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Single Care
Long-term care statistics 2022
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Despite another COVID surge, death stays near lows
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Provider Magazine
Supporting emotional needs to avoid burnout
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ABC News
Older Americans bore brunt of COVID-19 deaths during the omicron wave
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USA Today
Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID-19. Now they're facing a mental health crisis
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The Sun
Senior living: long COVID-19 symptoms often overlooked in seniors
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HHS
New surgeon general advisory sounds alarm on health worker burnout and resignation
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Coalition on Human Needs
CHN's COVID-19 watch, tracing hardship
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Bloomberg
A worker shortage is driving US nursing homes to the brink of collapse
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The Hill
Booster shot slowdown leaves older Americans at risk
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The Atlantic
The clearest account yet of how Trump's team botched the pandemic
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Home Health Care News
Where home health providers fit into the evolving kidney care landscape
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Fierce Healthcare
Hospitals decry CMS pay bump 'woefully inadequate' amid rising labor rates
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ProMedica
A big life: a ProMedica story
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USA Today
'Values of our society': nursing homes shut down, close wings amid COVID-19 staffing crunch
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Surprise visitor for north county nursing home residents
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CNN
There's a drug to protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19. Why is it so hard to get?
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The Guardian
I felt guilty putting my dad in a nursing home, but it brought us closer together
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America's homeless ranks graying as more retire on streets
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'Breaking the age code' review: riding high into the sunset
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Report: U.S. nursing home care is ineffective, inefficient, inequitable, fragmented, and unsustainable
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Nursing home care, funding system need overhaul, report says
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Add declining immigration to problems weighing on the labor market
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'Botched' COVID Booster rollout needs a reboot to save older Americans, experts say
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National Skilled Nursing Care Week Starts Sunday, May 8
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Nurse Day 2022 kicks off National Nurses Week Friday with freebies, discounts and free Crocs
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'Joyful Moments' Revealed as Theme for National Assisted Living Week 2022
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Deaths are no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated
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Caring for aging parents, sick spouses is keeping millions out of work
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Closure plans filed for one-fourth of unique specialty care provider’s facilities
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U.S. nursing home deaths appear to be at pandemic lows
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New laws let visitors see loved ones in health care facilities, even in an outbreak
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Don't blame nursing homes for the deaths of residents in a pandemic
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Angry and abused, health care workers still overwhelmingly love careers, poll shows
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Where have all the nurses gone?
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Wisconsin nursing home closures prompt request for more state aid
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Supply chain issues strike home health care
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Rising COVID cases in US nursing homes prompt hospital warnings
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Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They're quitting in droves.
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The nursing home staffing crisis right now is like nothing we've seen before
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Testing requirements for nursing home visits leave families stuck in 'another lockdown'
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To help battle COVID-19, a hospital borrows tactics from combat veterans
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Omicron surge spurs new COVID-19 relief push in congress
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Essential workers face a tough choice: find a test or miss work
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Patients Drive Hours to ERs as Omicron Variant Overwhelms Rural Hospitals
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Hospitals in half of US states close to capacity as Omicron continues surge
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Nursing homes at a tipping point: Many are forced to freeze admissions, stranding patients in hospitals for weeks
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How a Pennsylvania hospital system is working to free up beds during last COVID-19 surge
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COVID-era nursing homes staff crunch hurting hospitals, too
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Senior living communities need support
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Nursing homes can now lift most COVID restrictions on visits
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Healthy, boosted people unlikely to develop severe omicron infections, but jury’s out on older, at-risk populations
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Nursing homes can now lift most COVID restrictions on visits
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10,000 Workers Have Left Nursing Homes Since March 2020
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A Place for Dignity in Eldercare?
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Providers ‘Should Be in Survival Mode’: Nearly Half of Nurses Could Leave the Field in Next 2 Years
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Recent Survey Finds Nearly Every U.S. Nursing Home And Assisted Living Community Is Facing A Workforce Crisis
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670,000 flags on the National Mall pay tribute to America’s devastating COVID-19 losses
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Placing a Higher Value on Direct Care Workers
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Column: Closures of Oklahoma's long-term care facilities devastating to residents and workforce
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Three Maine nursing homes announced closures this week, and more appear imminent
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PODCAST What Families Want from Nursing Home Reform Post-COVID: No More Lockdowns and a Seat at the Table
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Job quality of direct care workforce fails to reflect their value: report
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‘Because of You Guys, I’m Stuck in My Room’
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Editorial: Forgotten nursing homes ravaged by COVID. What can we do?
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Long-term care facilities improve testing, struggle with staffing amid coronavirus pandemic
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How Covid-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement
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N.J. eases rules at nursing homes to allow more indoor visits
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Michigan: Indoor visits to nursing homes can resume
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Watch couple's tearful reunion after 7 months apart
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For Older People, Reassuring News in the Statin Debate
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NY eases restrictions on visits at assisted living homes
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Near birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., a predominantly Black nursing home tries to heal after outbreak
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'I Want to Be With Her.' When Covid Closed Nursing Homes, One Husband Moved In
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In Baltimore, a struggling, black-owned nursing home keeps covid-19 at bay
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An assisted-living facility isn’t allowing visitors. This woman became a dishwasher there to see her husband.
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7,000 killed in assisted living due to COVID-19, report finds
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We can’t protect nursing homes from COVID-19 without protecting everyone
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Black Medicare patients 4 times more likely to be hospitalized with coronavirus
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Why am I a Skilled Nursing advocate?
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Covid-19 deaths reveal ageist perceptions of seniors, which affects the care they receive
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Nursing homes represent more than 1 in 4 COVID-19 deaths
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Nursing Homes: What I Wish More People Knew
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U.S. Nursing Home Population Shrank Roughly 10% This Year
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Senior living outlook remains positive as industry adapts to challenges from COVID-19
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Together Since 1952, A Couple Separated When Coronavirus Hits Gets A Happy Reunion
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A quarter of US nursing homes report at least one coronavirus infection, first official tally shows
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Race and location — not star ratings — tied to COVID-19 deaths, say investigators
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Pace of move-ins appears to be improving: NIC
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40 percent of senior living operators have eased pandemic-related restrictions or will soon: Ziegler survey
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103-year-old matriarch and avid Red Sox fan recovers from coronavirus, cracks open a Bud Light
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COVID-19 making it even harder for SNFs to recruit, retain workers
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Survey: Senior living residents weigh in on coronavirus pandemic’s impact
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NJ women, 99 and 91, beat COVID-19 at Old Bridge nursing home
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South Roanoke Nursing Home announces recovery of 72 residents, staff from COVID-19
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Cherry Hill Nursing Home Emphasizes Success In Coronavirus Fight
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Nation Favors More COVID-19 Support for Nursing Centers, Assisted Living
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