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'Covid Awakened Americans to a Nursing Home Crisis. Now Comes the Hard Part.'


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Nina Kohn
Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and faculty director of online education in the College of Law, wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post titled “Covid awakened Americans to a nursing home crisis. Now comes the hard part.” Kohn, who also serves as faculty affiliate with the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute, is an expert on elder law.
Kohn writes that while nursing home residents make up less than half of 1% of the American population, they accounted for nearly a quarter of all COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic. This statistic, Kohn argues, reflects the long-standing systemic problems plaguing nursing home facilities across the nation. Kohn writes that understaffing and underspending on resident care are the biggest challenges facing the industry, and that many facilities put profit above resident welfare. ....

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Not enough CNY nursing home workers get Covid-19 shots; 'We are in race against time'


Not enough CNY nursing home workers get Covid-19 shots; ‘We are in race against time’
Updated 10:30 AM;
Today 10:30 AM
Christopher Bumpus, director of nursing at Bishop Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Syracuse, gets a Covid-19 vaccination on Dec. 21, 2020.
N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.comN. Scott Trimble | strimble@syra
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Syracuse, N.Y. Nearly 40% of Central New York nursing home employees are still not vaccinated against Covid-19, four months after the government made them a top priority in its massive vaccine roll-out.
While 87% of Central New York nursing home residents have been vaccinated, only 64% of staffers have gotten shots, according to the state Health Department. Fewer than one-third of staffers at some homes in the region have been vaccinated. ....

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