Tag: nursing homes

Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri lawmakers sent to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk legislation that aims to ensure residents…

State Rep. Ed Lewis had just hours to say goodbye. In March 2020, his mother, 89, had to go to…

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has probably ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — COVID-19 infections are rising again in Missouri nursing homes as the highly contagious Omicron variant surges.…

NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) — Over the past 10 years, inspectors have cited a St. Louis County nursing home for scores…

CLAYTON — A group of nursing home workers have been on strike for days to protest unfair labor practices and what…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nursing homes in Missouri with the vast majority of staff vaccinated tend to have strikingly lower…

Many of the staff and residents in Shunda Whitfield’s nursing home in St. Louis County were sick before they even…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. nursing home industry’s resistance to forcing workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for fear…

We hadn’t seen my mother-in-law at her nursing home for a year because of the COVID lockdown. She’s vaccinated. We’re…

BRIDGETON (AP) — Every year, the Sarah Community, a nursing home in Bridgeton, hosts its own Oktoberfest. The event usually…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Residents and staff of long-term care facilities in Missouri began receiving the vaccine for COVID-19 on…

After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now…

(AP) — As record numbers of patients with the coronavirus fill Missouri’s hospitals, many are requiring specialized care in intensive…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge refused to intervene Wednesday to keep open a Missouri lab that handled coronavirus…

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Fifty-six residents of Missouri veterans homes have died of COVID-19 since Sept. 1, including 25 at…