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![West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (pictured in January) has said he wants all nursing home residents and staff for coronavirus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ap_20064752474935-f6b574cf0c2e0e97de8475523653070e44b12dfa-scaled-e1587164469707-900x422.jpg)
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.
![Treyton Oak Towers, a senior living facility in Louisville where at least nine residents have died from coronavirus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/TOT-scaled-e1586920938909-900x422.jpg)
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
![Gov. Mike DeWine speaks to reporters](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dewine_at_news_conference-e1584059854949-900x422.jpg)
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
![From 2012 through 2016, federal health inspectors cited 87% of U.S. hospices for deficiencies. And 20% had lapses serious enough to endanger patients, according to two new reports from the HHS Inspector General's Office.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/gettyimages-619266666-ffd4f7173f9ef39c9f060d7edb3a59d77a2591de-e1562693872779-900x422.jpg)
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.