Tag: nursing homes
Senior Agenda Coalition of R.I. hires Beaudreau as executive director
PROVIDENCE – The Senior Agenda Coalition of Rhode Island, an organization advocating on behalf of the state's senior population, has hired Bernard J. Beaudreau...
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...
Should Gov. Daniel J. McKee allow some exemptions to a COVID-19...
The Rhode Island Partnership for Home Care is projecting hundreds of resignations from home care nurses, allied health professionals, social workers, physical therapists, occupational...
Healthcentric Advisors to lead virtual COVID-19 learning collaborative for nursing homes
PROVIDENCE – Healthcentric Advisors, a Providence-based company specializing in health care improvement through data analysis and education, has been awarded a $600,000 federal contract...
Nursing home staffing bill passes R.I. Senate
PROVIDENCE – Legislation requiring a set number of hours of daily care for nursing home residents and a pay raise for certified nursing assistants...
Nursing homes to allow essential caregivers to take care of residents
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo announced Friday that the R.I. Department of Health gave the green light to nursing homes to allow essential...
Brown researchers to track COVID-19 vaccine effects on elderly
As federal authorities begin the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine nationwide, local public health leaders are developing ways to track potential side effects.
Brown University’s School...
Nursing homes struggle to fill staffing positions
While attending a nursing home industry event more than a year ago, Jamie Sanford came to a startling realization: Sanford, 37, was the youngest...
Residents, staff at nearly 200 R.I. long-term care facilities to get...
PROVIDENCE – Residents and staff members at nursing homes will be among the first people in Rhode Island to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
The state...
Survival mode: Nursing homes under growing pressure as COVID-19 cases climb...
Tonya Landry was able to keep COVID-19 out of her nursing home in the spring. She hasn’t been as lucky this fall.
Landry is the...
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