Category: nursing homes

99% of Ontario Nursing Homes Now Have Air Conditioning in Residents’ Rooms: Minister

Nearly 99 per cent of nursing homes in Ontario now have air conditioning in residents’ rooms, almost a year after the province set a deadline for the requirement. Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said only nine of the 625 nursing homes in Ontario remain without air conditioning in resident rooms. Three of those are expected…


Louisiana Nursing Home Owner Arrested on Cruelty, Fraud, Felony Charges Following Resident Deaths

The owner of seven nursing homes in Louisiana has been arrested on state fraud and cruelty charges after evacuating over 800 elderly residents to a squalid warehouse prior to Hurricane Ida last year, where seven residents eventually died. Bob Glynn Dean Jr., 68, of Thomaston, Georgia, has been charged in Louisiana’s Tangipahoa Parish with “eight felony…


Facts Matter (May 20): Nursing Homes Forced Elderly to Vote in 2020, Resulting in 100% Voter Turnouts: Deep Dive Analysis

After a several months-long investigation in Wisconsin, the sheriff of Racine County made a televised, public presentation in which he exposed the evidence that his office was able to collect regarding possible felony violations committed by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Specifically, the evidence showed that absentee ballots were cast on behalf of nursing home residents…


Elderly Forced to Vote, 100 Percent Voter Turnout in Nursing Homes in 2020 Election | Larry Elder

The New York Times trashed a recent report by the former chief justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, Michael Gableman, who was hired by Republicans to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election. The Times said the report “endorsed a host of debunked claims of fraud and false assertions.” Meanwhile, Gableman found that some Wisconsin counties…


Fired Health Care Worker Moves Forward, Looks Back on What Was Lost at the Hand of Restrictive COVID-19 Policies

As residents of nursing homes were cut off from their families, Kayla Montoro worked throughout the pandemic to keep at bay what had become its own pandemic of loneliness by coordinating events and volunteers to engage isolated seniors. Despite that, amid a crisis of staffing shortages in the health care industry that has resulted in…


Most COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted From Nursing Homes

Nursing homes were told by the U.S. government Friday to ease restrictions imposed around the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, including allowing visitors at all times. The updated guidance (pdf) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) cites an increase in vaccination rates among nursing home residents and a drop in COVID-19 cases nationwide…


Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Will Worsen Pennsylvania Nursing Home Staffing Crisis

While Pennsylvania nursing homes and long-term care facilities already face major staffing challenges, the federal vaccine mandate and a new state-proposed minimum staffing requirement could devastate the industry. President Joe Biden’s 100 percent vaccine mandate for healthcare workers is expected to throw thousands of employees out of a job, in an industry that has struggled…


Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Will Worsen Pennsylvania Nursing Home Staffing Crisis: Healthcare Association CEO

While Pennsylvania nursing homes and long-term care facilities already face major staffing challenges, the federal vaccine mandate and a new state-proposed minimum staffing requirement could devastate the industry. President Joe Biden’s 100 percent vaccine mandate for healthcare workers is expected to throw thousands of employees out of a job, in an industry that has struggled…


Facts Matter (Aug. 26): 44 Senators Issue Letter Demanding Durham Report Be Made Public; Grand Jury Pushing Forward

Forty-four Republican senators just sent a letter to the Department of Justice, demanding two things: an official update on the Durham investigation, as well as a promise from the attorney general that once the final report comes out, it must be made public. In New York state, Andrew Cuomo has officially been replaced by Kathy…


Public Health Officials Conceal Hospital Infection Outbreaks

Commentary Public health officials struggle with telling the truth. They seem to think people don’t deserve to know. At the beginning of COVID-19, they told us we didn’t need masks instead of admitting there was a mask shortage. Last week, health officials announced outbreaks of a hospital infection that’s highly contagious and untreatable by any…