Rachel Cohrs / Modern Healthcare
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Context
- Increased COVID-related costs and declining populations driving many for-profit nursing homes into financial trouble (Matthew Goldstein, Robert Gebeloff, Jessica Silver-Greenberg / The New York Times)
- CMS says nursing homes should stay closed to visitors until they have no new COVID-19 cases for 28 days and should test workers weekly (Bruce Japsen / Forbes)
- CMS now requiring nursing homes to inform patients, families, public health agencies of any COVID-19 cases in their facilities (Release / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)