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We need to get creative to protect nursing home residents during a pandemic. Here’s how | Simon F. Haeder
Pennsylvania nursing homes were the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. We need to apply the lessons of that canary in the coalmine experience.
This Pittsburgh nurse works on the front lines. Here’s what she needs from Harrisburg. | John L. Micek
Artinese Knight is a registered nurse. And she worries about lots of stuff: Whether she’ll have the personal protective equipment she needs when she shows up for work. If she can offer the care to her patients that they need and deserve. And, if she gets sick, whether she can afford to take the time […]
Amid calls for her dismissal, Health Secretary Levine says Pa. is evolving its strategies to fight COVID-19
Health Secretary Dr, Rachel Levine said she “[remains] committed to protecting the citizens of Pennsylvania, whether they agree with me or not.”
State Senate approves $507M funding measure for nursing homes and care facilities
Funding for the measure comes from the federal CARES Act, which sent $3.9 billion to Pennsylvania for COVID-19 recovery programs.
Pa. announces COVID-19 testing plan for nursing homes
Pennsylvania will begin a stricter testing regime for nursing homes, assisted living and other long term care facilities to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Why can’t Pa. protect seniors against COVID-19? | Editorial Cartoon
Nursing home deaths make up the bulk of Pa.'s COVID-19 fatalities. What is the state doing to protect seniors against this threat?
My brother is in a nursing home where everyone is presumed to have COVID-19. All we can do is pray | Mark O’Keefe
The days are long but the nights are even longer. Those 3 a.m. wake-ups come more often. All we can do now is pray and wait.
COVID-19 has exposed a crisis in our long-term care system | Ray E. Landis
This crisis has exposed the serious flaws in the way our society cares for individuals who no longer can care for themselves.
Here’s how Wolf, lawmakers can help our nursing home heroes | Opinion
The state should put aside its past budgetary woes and implement a direct pass-through payment to our long-term care providers, workers and residents.
Short on staff and supplies in a pandemic, Erie nursing home employees say they’re not getting the help they need
The dispute over staffing and supplies also comes amid the employees’ ongoing effort to unionize.
COVID-19 in Pa.: We have to ensure care for our caregivers | Opinion
Gov. Tom Wolf and the U.S. Congress need to allocate funds to raise nursing home workers’ wages, for union and non-union workers alike
#PaBudget 2020: Wolf, lawmakers need to shore up Medicaid funding | Opinion
Across the country, long-term care providers are closing their doors as a result of chronic Medicaid underfunding