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West Virginia Aims To Test All Nursing Home Residents, Workers for COVID-19
By: Sarah McCammon | NPR
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said there have been discrepancies in data from the homes, and wants even those already checked to be retested.

Coronavirus Takes a Terrible Toll on Ohio Valley Nursing Homes
By: Becca Schimmel | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (OVR) — The coronavirus is taking a terrible toll on nursing homes in the Ohio Valley. Well over a thousand residents and staff at nursing homes and long-term… Read More

DeWine Orders Ban on Visitors at Nursing Homes, State’s Psychiatric Hospitals
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered a ban on visitors at Ohio nursing homes and in the state’s psychiatric hospitals. DeWine says nursing homes requested the ban because of the vulnerability… Read More

HHS Inspector General Finds Serious Flaws In 20% Of U.S. Hospice Programs
By: Ina Jaffe | NPR
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Two new reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have found widespread problems in hospice care and say the government needs to open its scorecards on hospice care to the public.