Elder Law Blog

COVID deaths hit 25 for Indian Oaks Living Center As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, one fact we knew early on is consistently reinforced: the elderly are particularly vulnerable to the virus and, once infected, suffer a higher rate of fatalities. For this reason, Texas and other states...

One COVID-19 Case Can Infect 50% of Nursing Home Residents “in a Matter of Hours” Right or wrong, out here in rural Texas not many people are wearing masks. In stores, yes but not out on the streets. Americans are tired of doom and gloom predictions of millions of dead from the Chinese...

New York had one of the highest nursing home death rates in the United States in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The daily infection rates in the Empire State are way down but the damage has been done. Families watched as hundreds of their loved ones died horrific deaths.
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Twice in 2019 the United States faced deadly outbreaks of Candida Auris, one in New York and one in Southern California. With small clusters in other states, New Jersey largely dodged a bullet last year. This year, it appears there is at least one case of this deadly fungus in New Jersey,...

Twice in 2019 the United States faced deadly outbreaks of Candida Auris, one in New York and one in Southern California. Candida Auris is a difficult to treat fungus that kills as many as 50% of the people it infects. Like coronavirus, it is particularly deadly when the outbreak occurs in a nursing...

They fought in and survived conflicts ranging from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Now, too many veterans and their spouses residing at an East Vincent Township facility are succumbing to COVID-19.
Two top Pennsylvania officials at the state-run Southeastern Veterans’ Center (SVC) in...

The now-closed The Healthcare at Foster Creek nursing home is the site of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak and the highest number of fatalities. To date, 119 residents or employees tested positive for coronavirus, and 29 people succumbed to the disease. The family of an 83-year old...

With millions of Floridians scared about COVID-19, nursing home lobbyists are using the pandemic to press Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature for immunity from lawsuits and even criminal prosecution. So far 16 states have already caved to the pressure from well paid healthcare...

[Post Updated April 29 to include information about New York's new immunity law shielding negligent nursing homes.] Last week the New York Times called nursing homes “death pits.” Already 10,000 nursing home patients, almost all of them elderly, died in the United States. Hundreds are...

Almost 7,000 nursing home residents in the United States have died from coronavirus related complications. The New York Times calls them “death pits.” Couple that with the inability of family members to visit loved ones and you have the perfect storm. One that is inexcusable.
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