Tag: John Gage
Nursing home law remains in limbo amid uncertainty about fixes
A law enacted three years ago intended to ensure quality care at Rhode Island nursing homes has yet to be enforced, and no one...
HELPING HANDS: Online classes, grants speed training of desperately needed CNAs
Anyone who has spent even a little time in a nursing home or hospital has seen whose hands do the essential feeding, dressing, cleaning...
2 Rhode Island nursing homes file for receivership, citing ‘inability to...
PROVIDENCE – Two Rhode Island nursing homes have filed for receivership, declaring their “inability to pay debts as they come due.”
However, neither residents nor...
CODE RED: Amid closures, nursing homes fight for survival
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, the staff at Cherry Hill Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Johnston...
Report: 87% of R.I. nursing homes at risk of closing
WARWICK – As many as 87% of nursing homes in Rhode Island are at financial risk of closure, according to a recent report commissioned...
E.P. nursing home closing amid missing paychecks, safety violations
EAST PROVIDENCE – A 57-bed nursing home called Elderwood at Riverside says it’s closing down by the end of the month, after the R.I....
Senior care organizations signal alarm bell on staffing shortage
PROVIDENCE – Two senior care organizations say that the labor shortage hampering Rhode Island's long-term care facilities, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, has...
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