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![Sharon Hudson (left) has advanced Alzheimer's. But she smiles, giggles and holds hands with her daughter, Lana Obermeyer, when she visits at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sharon-hudson_01-e3711dcb0b51fce34b40356486c4b4f80e6d89d1-scaled-e1694718863287-900x422.jpg)
Rural nursing home operators say new staff rules would cause more closures
By: Tony Leys | NPR
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SYRACUSE, Neb. (NPR) — Many rural communities like this one face a health care dilemma: Is it better to have a nursing home that struggles to hire workers or no… Read More
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Ohio’s nursing homes get a boost in the state budget, but there’s a bit of a catch
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s new two year state budget includes $1.4 billion for nursing homes to provide incentives for increasing quality of care and for more inspectors. And… Read More
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine delivers his State of the State address
By: Andy Chow | Jo Ingles | Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, focused on the Ohio budget and the issues he believes need the most attention during his State of the… Read More
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Ohio House approves $615M for nursing homes
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Lawmakers in the Ohio House attached an amendment to a bill that would send $615 million to skilled nursing facilities to help with staffing… Read More
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Ohio’s nursing homes hope for more money soon – and in next year’s budget
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A lobby representing Ohio’s nursing homes is asking the state to give them another $600 million to help them offset increased costs for providing care… Read More
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Nearly half of Ohio’s nursing home workers remain unvaccinated for COVID
By: Aaron Payne
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Health Care Association reports just over 55% of workers in the nursing homes it represents are vaccinated against COVID-19, despite efforts to… Read More
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Bill Would Allow Ohio Nursing Home Residents To Have Security Cameras
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Many Ohioans have security cameras inside their homes but Ohio law prohibits residents who live in assisted living or long-term care nursing facilities from having… Read More
![Ohio Department of Aging Director Ursel McElroy joined Gov. Mike and Fran DeWine for the first COVID vaccine among Ohio nursing home residents, at the Crown Point Care Center in Columbus in December.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mcelroy_w_dewines_at_first_nursing_home_vaccine-e1616771134896-900x422.jpeg)
Ohio Posts List Of Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Sites Not Disclosing Vaccine Info
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There have been more than 6,900 COVID deaths in Ohio nursing homes – 38% of all the deaths in the state. Now Gov. Mike… Read More
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New Order Requires Nursing Homes To Allow Visits In Most Cases
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Currently in Ohio, nursing home visitors need to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms at the front door, need to sign in, wear masks and schedule those visits in… Read More
![In this March 6, 2020, photo, tissues, gloves, and masks greet visitors at the South Shore Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center, in Rockland, Mass.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nursing_home_face_mask_-_by_david_goldman-e1614026151186-900x422.jpg)
Gov. DeWine Reminds Nursing Homes To Allow Compassionate Care Visits
By: Gabe Rosenberg | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — Gov. Mike DeWine is sending a letter to all Ohio’s nursing homes to make sure they’re clear on the federal government’s guidelines for visitations, which remain heavily… Read More
![Signs reading "We're all in this together" decorate the windows of a nursing home facility in northeast Columbus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nursing_home_sign-e1612392294394-900x422.jpeg)
Proposed Budget Gives Ohio Department Of Health More Power To Shutter “Unsafe” Nursing Homes
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — More than half of the state’s COVID-19 deaths coming from nursing homes. So those and other long term care facilities are getting a lot of… Read More
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DeWine: COVID Vaccines Mishandled In 5 NE Ohio Nursing Homes
By: Jennifer Merritt | WVXU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WVXU) — Some patients at five nursing homes in Northeast Ohio will have to repeat their COVID-19 vaccinations after Walgreens informed the state that some doses weren’t stored… Read More
![Larry Yarbroff visits his wife Mary at Chaparral House in Berkeley, Calif. in July. California health authorities had allowed some visits to resume, and now federal regulators are doing the same, with measures to try to block the spread of the coronavirus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ap_20194182533658-428dd5163ca5e4891850ed67773ac1766a4da5d1-scaled-e1600455067458-900x422.jpg)
Nursing Homes Given Federal Go-Ahead To Allow More Visitors
By: Ina Jaffe | NPR
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Nursing homes visitors have been banned since March because of COVID-19. Now the federal agency that regulates the facilities has outlined terms for resuming visits immediately.
![The entrance to Continuing Health Care in Gahanna, where two staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 tests, but no residents have.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/nursing_home_heroes_sign__4_-e1589987721872-900x422.jpeg)
‘Inconsistent Results’ Reported In Ohio’s Assisted Living COVID-19 Testing Program
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state is pausing a widespread COVID-19 testing program at assisted living facilities due to what Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) called “inconsistent results” with… Read More
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West Virginia Allows Nursing Home Visits To Resume
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nursing home visits are being allowed again in West Virginia as the state focuses on outbreaks of the coronavirus in individual county populations without clamping down… Read More
![The entrance to Continuing Health Care in Gahanna, where two staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 tests, but no residents have.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/nursing_home_heroes_sign__4_-e1589987721872-900x422.jpeg)
Ohio’s Nursing Homes Are Running Out Of Personal Protective Equipment
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s nursing homes don’t have enough personal protective equipment to last another week. That’s the finding from a federal agency that deals with Medicare… Read More
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Facing Loss Of Ohio National Guard Help, Nursing Homes Taking On Testing
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Three quarters of Ohio’s confirmed COVID-19 deaths are from its nursing homes. Nationwide, more than 40% of coronavirus deaths are linked to long term care facilities. The… Read More
![An Ohio National Guard soldier watches a forklift move a load of personal protective equipment as part of a mission in April. This was one of several pandemic-related assignments the Guard has been deployed on since March.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ong__ppe_mission_april_-_credit_konik-e1594225346252-900x422.jpg)
DeWine Says Testing Will Continue At Nursing Homes Without National Guard Help
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Nearly three quarters of all confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Ohio have been in nursing homes. Ohio National Guard personnel have been helping with testing in long… Read More
![An ambulance pulls up outside a nursing home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Two members of Congress have called for an investigation of five states, including New York, which ordered nursing homes to admit patients who tested positive for COVID-19.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/gettyimages-1219615841-2eca2ab821a7da8206b8e52bbdcc11c6d26fe7d8-scaled-e1593545800165-900x422.jpg)
Lawmakers Call For Investigation Of States’ Nursing Home Policies During Pandemic
By: Ina Jaffe | NPR
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Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Greg Walden question some states’ requirement that nursing homes accept COVID-19-positive patients from hospitals.
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Nursing Home Residents Still Majority Of Ohio’s Coronavirus Deaths
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — New data shows that coronavirus deaths in nursing homes continue to make up the vast majority of pandemic fatalities in Ohio. Wednesday marks at least the… Read More
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Ohio’s Long-Term Care Facilities Will Restart Visitation In June
By: Matt Richmond | WCPN
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCPN) — Gov. Mike DeWine is beginning to loosen restrictions on assisted living facilities and homes for the developmentally disabled. Starting June 8, residents at those two types of… Read More
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Ohio National Guard Deploys to Test Nursing Home, Congregate Care Staff and Residents for COVID-19
By: Jess Mador | WYSO
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio National Guard will deploy across the state beginning this week to help expand COVID-19 testing at Ohio’s 960 nursing homes. Gov. Mike DeWine… Read More
![Two residents of a nursing home hold up cards they received from a community mail program](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-3.31.14-PM-e1588880050634-900x422.png)
Smile Mail Shortens Social Distance for Seniors in Nursing Homes
By: Claudia Cisneros
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — COVID-19 related deaths in nursing homes accounts for 40% of all the COVID-19 related deaths in Ohio . Nationwide, COVID-19 related deaths in nursing homes account for… Read More
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Ohio Nursing Homes Report 276 Deaths
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state has now added deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes to its coronavirus tracking website – confirming that nearly 300 people have died of… Read More
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Nursing Homes Group Wants Mass Testing in Long-Term Care Facilities
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Mass testing in three Ohio prisons has turned up 3,853 coronavirus cases among inmates and 379 prison workers, showing how fast the virus can spread… Read More