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More than a year into the novel coronavirus pandemic, we arent certain how many Ohio nursing home workers died of COVID-19. COVID-19 made working in a nursing home one of the deadliest jobs in America, according to an analysis of federal data by Scientific American magazine. Nursing home staffers had a higher death rate in 2020 than logging workers did in 2019, Scientific American found. The only group that had a higher death rate in 2019 were fishers. “It just leaves me speechless,”...

Ohio caregivers left out of COVID-19 vaccine eligibility despite duties to seniors Ellen Hine, Cincinnati Enquirer © Albert Cesare / The Enquirer Guselyn Bobb, 58, helps her mother, Lena Bobb, 87, with her lunch on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 at their home in the Pleasant Run Farm neighborhood of Springfield Township. Guselyn Bobb said she had been trying to get her mother vaccinated for about two months and that her primary care physician was able to secure a Moderna COVID-19 vacc...

Families of residents in Ohio’s nursing homes, assisted living and developmental disability homes are urgently awaiting a return of in-person visitin

Ohio families await nursing home visiting rule changes with signs of hope

A presentation for Ohio legislators discussed COVID-19 data reported by nursing homes as well as AARPs assessment of long-term care in the state.

Ohio has $50M plan to shrink nursing home bed count Kaitlin Schroeder Older Ohioans overwhelmingly prefer to stay home and out of a nursing home as long as possible, and when in a nursing home, people primarily want the room to themselves. This has prompted the DeWine administration to propose a $50 million fund that would buy back bed licenses from nursing homes and shrink the number of beds in the region. The fund is proposed as part of DeWine’s newly unveiled two-year opera...

no bankruptcy protections, no statute of limitations on the collections of those debts. >> woodruff: on our "daily download" segment, margaret warner compares how the presidential campaigns stack up on twitter. >> suarez: and gwen ifill talks to the authors of a new book about the most exclusive club in the united states with just five members, all former presidents. >> george bush said it to barack obama, at that amazing moment when all the living presidents were together at the white...

on stude loans, paul solman explores the idea of letting borrowers walk away from their debts. >> student loans are treated unlike any other type of debt in america meaning they have no consumer protections. no bankruptcy protections, no statute of limitations on the collections of those debts. >> woodruff: on our "daily download" segment, margaret warner compares how the presidential campaigns stack up on twitter. >> suarez: and gwen ifill talks to the authors of a new book about the ...

america meaning they have no consumer protections. no bankruptcy protections, no statute of limitations on the collections of those debts. >> woodruff: on our "daily download" segment, margaret warner compares how the presidential campaigns stack up on twitter. >> suarez: and gwen ifill talks to the authors of a new book about the most exclusive club in the united states with just five members, all former presidents. >> george bush said it to barack obama, at that amazing moment when a...

captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie is off tonight.. a volatile week for u.s. investors ended with u.s. stocks down today. worries about the global economy have come back into focus this week as chinas economic growth has slowed and spanish borrowing costs have soared. that helped wall street cap the ek in the red. the dow fell 137 points, the nasdaq lost 44 and the s&p 500 was off 23. we have two reports tonight on the shape of the worlds...