KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Big Biden Budget Bill Passes the House
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3 States Limit Nursing Home Profits in Bid to Improve Care
Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there
Read MoreConfronting Ageism in Health Care: A Conversation for Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians
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Read MoreCalifornia Vaccine Mandate Extends to Aides for People With Disabilities
Workers in adult and senior care facilities and in-home aides have been added to the list of California health workers
Read MoreMinister for Seniors at Famed Church Confronts Ageism and the Shame It Brings
Later life is a time of reassessment and reflection. What sense do we make of the lives we have lived?
Read MoreBiden’s No-Jab-No-Job Order Creates Quandary for Nursing Homes
President Joe Biden’s edict that nursing homes must ensure their workers are vaccinated against covid-19 presents a challenge for an
Read MoreAfter Pandemic Ravaged Nursing Homes, New State Laws Protect Residents
When the coronavirus hit Martha Leland’s Connecticut nursing home last year, she and dozens of other residents contracted the disease
Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Booster Time
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Read MoreClarity on Covid Count: Pandemic’s Toll on Seniors Extended Well Beyond Nursing Homes
As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the
Read MoreAmid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents
West Virginia raced ahead of the country last winter to get people in nursing homes vaccinated against covid-19, but with
Read MoreTeen Volunteers Get a Foot in the Door for Nursing Home Careers
Jasmine De Moya, 17, has dreamed for years of working in the medical field, and she yearned to spend time
Read MoreZooming Into the Statehouse: Nursing Home Residents Use New Digital Skills to Push for Changes
Patty Bausch isn’t a Medicaid expert, lawyer or medical professional. But she still thinks Connecticut legislators need her input when
Read MoreCaring for an Aging Nation
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Read MoreIn California, Nursing Home Owners Can Operate After They’re Denied a License
The pandemic has highlighted poor care in America’s nursing homes, where nearly 175,000 people have died of covid-19 — a
Read MoreBig Investors Push Nursing Homes to Upgrade Care and Working Conditions
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid pandemic, have taken heat from government regulators,
Read MoreCovid Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy
Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going
Read MoreBehind The Byline: Reporting Road Trip
KHN has never been busier ― and health coverage has never been more vital. The Behind The Byline series on
Read MoreReopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’
For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for
Read MoreVaccine Hesitancy vs. Vaccine Refusal: Nursing Home Staffers Say There’s a Difference
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Read MoreJournalists Explore Inefficiency and Inequities of Vaccine Rollout
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber spoke about the covid-19 vaccine rollout for WAMU’s “1A” on Jan. 29. Click here to
Read MoreAt Colorado’s Rural Edges, Vaccines Help Assisted Living Homes Crack Open the Doors
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Read MoreIf I Have Cancer, Dementia or MS, Should I Get the Covid Vaccine?
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Read MoreCVS and Walgreens Under Fire for Slow Pace of Vaccination in Nursing Homes
The effort to vaccinate some of the country’s most vulnerable residents against covid-19 has been slowed by a federal program
Read MoreMore Than 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year — And the Government Barely Kept Track
More than 2,900 U.S. health care workers have died in the COVID-19 pandemic since March, a far higher number than
Read MoreAs the Terror of COVID Struck, Health Care Workers Struggled to Survive. Thousands Lost the Fight.
Workers at Garfield Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles were on edge as the pandemic ramped up in March and
Read MoreInside the First Chaotic Days of the Effort to Vaccinate America
One tray of COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer contains 975 doses — way too many for a rural hospital
Read MoreLong-Term Care Workers, Grieving and Under Siege, Brace for COVID’s Next Round
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Read MoreNursing Homes Still See Dangerously Long Waits for COVID Test Results
Nursing homes are still taking days to get back COVID-19 test results as many shun the Trump administration’s central strategy
Read MoreEnfermeros itinerantes en alto riesgo frente a condiciones de atención de COVID-19
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Read More‘Is This Worth My Life?’: Traveling Health Workers Decry COVID Care Conditions
David Joel Perea called from Maine, Vermont, Minnesota and, ultimately, Nevada, always with the same request: “Mom, can you send
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