AUSTIN (KXAN) — These days, Janie Luevano spends a lot of time outside. Inside, she doesn’t feel the usual holiday cheer. She chose to ditch the Christmas decorations this year — opting instead for a ...

Workers from a Servpro disaster recovery team enter the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., to begin cleaning and disinfecting the facility on March 11. (Ted S. Warren/AP) Nursing homes operated by ...

Infection control in intensive care units (ICUs) remains a critical component of modern healthcare, particularly given the high-risk environments where the most vulnerable patients are treated. The ...

Nursing homes are one of the highest risk environments in the current coronavirus outbreak. And many have a history of failing to have or properly carry out a plan to prevent the spread of infectious ...

The New York City Health Department is kicking off a new program that aims to keep COVID-19 infections down at nursing homes. AP/John Minchillo The New York City Health Department is developing a new ...

A nursing home resident with COVID-19 symptoms is transferred into an ambulance in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 5. By the end of August, at least 53,000 U.S. nursing home residents had died of COVID-19.

Many of nursing homes’ infection prevention and control weaknesses initially exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic still demand additional support and resources, researchers warn in a new JAMDA study. The ...

Whether they’re there for a few days after a hospital stay, or living there long term, people in nursing homes are especially vulnerable to infections. From bacteria that have evolved to resist most ...