So few staffers at one Queens nursing home have opted to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, that the facility on Tuesday warned its workers to get their shots now — or wait their turn like everyone else. Across the Empire State, vaccines have
A Queens nursing home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak withheld potentially lifesaving vaccines from rehab patients, leaving a New York City councilman’s 96-year-old mother and others to catch the contagion. Dry Harbor Nursing Home in Middle Village — where 44 residents have
A New Mexico judge this week decided in favor of 78-year-old Gary Hein, who sued the state for keeping him apart from his wife, who currently lives in a nursing home, during the coronavirus pandemic, according to local reports. The New Mexico Health Department must revise a provision
More than nine months into the coronavirus pandemic, New York state’s nursing homes have made little headway in ensuring its residents’ safety, according to the findings of a report published Thursday. The Empire Center for Public Policy found that between Oct. 25 and
Seven residents at three Washington state nursing homes have died of coronavirus in an outbreak linked to staff who attended a large wedding last month and became infected. The outbreaks were reported on Nov. 20 — about two weeks after the wedding in rural Ritzville attended by
Ucedrah Osby heard the terrible news in a way nobody ever wants to: from a local television report, at the same time as everybody else in Bakersfield, California who tuned in. “They were doing interviews,” she recalled. “They were saying that the
State officials in Illinois are investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans’ nursing home that infected nearly 200 residents and personnel and killed 27 veterans. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office and the state’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs are attempting to determine what caused the
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be receiving an Emmy Award for his coronavirus briefings, but brothers Peter and Daniel Arbeeny joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” to reminisce on his doomed decision to fill nursing homes with COVID-19 patients. The Arbeeny brothers’ father passed away while
Fair Havens Center, a nursing home in Miami Springs, Fla., where 52 residents died from COVID-19, has reopened after nearly having its license pulled for not abiding by proper coronavirus protocol and paying $67,000 in fines. The facility had been closed to new residents for five
A casket display outside a Brooklyn nursing home in New York had 6,500 copies of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new book dumped into it, to represent to the number of people who’ve died from the coronavirus, due to his administration’s policies regarding sick senior citizens. Around