UpdatedWed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:49 pm CT
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Nursing homes are reopening as more Americans get COVID-19 vaccinations, including Conrad Sewer, who lives in a Harlem, New York, care center. But social distancing precautions are still required in many places. (Nick Garber/Patch)
STILLWATER, MN Lisa Racine is a dishwasher and floor-mopper by choice.
A project manager for a printing company, she considers it a privilege to close out her day at her second job at a Stillwater, Minnesota, nursing home.
She was missing her 87-year-old dad, at whose knee she learned the printing trade, after nursing homes locked down to control the coronavirus outbreak. Along with millions of other Americans separated from their elderly parents, she could only see her dad, Harold Racine, through the glass window panes at Good Samaritan Society - Stillwater.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed shortcomings in Indiana’s long-term care system, but the Indiana legislature took no action to reform care at the nursing home level this year.
WHEELING, W.Va. The day had finally arrived.
After nearly a year in lockdown for the residents of Good Shepherd Nursing Home eating meals in their rooms, playing bingo over their television sets and isolating themselves almost entirely from the outside world their coronavirus vaccinations were finished and the hallways were slowly beginning to reawaken.In a first, tentative glimpse at what the other side of the pandemic might look like, Betty Lou Leech, 97, arrived to the dining room early, a mask on her face, her hair freshly curled.
“I’m too excited to eat,” she said, sitting at her favorite table once again.
On January 18, 2021, a lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) challenging a CMS.