Things seem to be improving. Newly reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. remained under 80,000 for the fourth day in a row, while hospitalizations fell to their lowest level since Nov. 10. The latest vaccination update also had some good news. The Biden Administration hoped to give shots to one million Americans per day. The
Rhode Island Senate passed legislation requiring safe staffing levels at nursing homes. This will help overstretched staff, increase quality, and prevent delays in care. The bill requires nursing homes to have enough licensed nurses and nurses-assistants to provide 4.1 hours of direct care to each resident every day. Both the unions that have pushed for
The Christian Science Monitor had an interesting article asking how nursing homes could have handled the pandemic better. What lessons were learned? The question is whether nursing homes could have done better – and can do better going forward. Only with better and safer staffing. The bottom line is that nursing homes that have worse
Lack of Communication Fox Carolina reported on one family’s complaint against a Fundamental facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Patricia Galloway’s granddaughter is concerned about lack of communication from Valley Falls Terrace nursing home. We see identical complaints as nursing home lawyers all the time. “She was beautiful on the inside and she deserved so much
Get Vaccinated The vaccine distribution has improved. But sometimes mistakes happen. Walgreens made a storage error and now Ohio nursing homes have to re-administer COVID-19 vaccines to residents. Some of the shots had not been stored under the proper cold storage temperatures. Walgreens said it discovered that one lot of the vials containing the vaccine
The second impeachment trial of Trump started this past week. Americans clearly disapprove of Trump’s behavior which caused the insurrection. Trump’s Senate loyalists — including Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham — criticized his lawyers’ case as ineffective. However, the defense lawyers’ problem is that they cannot defend the indefensible. They know it; we know it;
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