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Nursing home minimum staffing bill to go to vote in RI House


PROVIDENCE  A proposed compromise in the politically charged, union-driven fight for minimum staffing mandates at Rhode Island nursing homes is headed to the Rhode Island House for a vote, after winning the endorsement of a key committee on Thursday.
The mandate would be phased in over two years. The minimum number of required hours per patient per day would be lower than in the Senate-passed version, and would include time spent with physical therapists, speech pathologists and other medical professionals.  
In an interview earlier this week, Shekarchi said the reworked bill balances the desire to improve health-care quality and patient care . [with] the industry s perspective. ....

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Nursing home visits resumed last week but under tight restrictions


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JOHNSTON It was June when silver-haired Anna Amalfitano, 87, emerged from 44 days of quarantine in the nursing home’s downstairs isolation ward.
She had been the first resident at Cherry Hill Manor Nursing and Rehab Center diagnosed with COVID-19 after her caregiver tested positive for the virus toward April’s end.
By then workers at Cherry Hill, as in nursing homes across America, navigated the halls looking like space walkers, covered from head to toe in gowns and masks, making it hard for residents like Amalfitano to recognize them.
Amalfitano didn’t fully grasp the gravity of personal loss suffered at the center until residents were allowed to move out of their rooms again as case numbers dipped. ....

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US nursing homes, confused by initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout, will begin immunizations next week, CDC says


US nursing homes, confused by initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout, will begin immunizations next week, CDC says
Elizabeth Weise and Tom Mooney, USA TODAY
CDC committee: Health care workers, nursing home residents should get COVID vaccine first
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The vast majority of nursing homes in the United States won t start vaccinating staff and residents against COVID-19 until Dec. 21, and some won t start until Dec. 28, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Monday s rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine brought confusion nationwide as it became clear most long-term care facilities and nursing homes were not taking part in the initial immunizations, despite the CDC s decision last week to include residents in the first phase of distribution.  ....

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