In November 2020, one Italian care home created an ingenious solution to Covid's isolation: a "hugging room" where people could safely embrace through a plastic screen.

A group of skilled nursing providers is asking the president to step in and quickly lift lengthy isolation periods for ...

Patients who participated in a COVID-19 patient home monitoring program were satisfied with their care and stated that their participation made them less likely to seek care in the emergency ...

When the Trump administration required nursing homes to report their COVID-19 cases, it also promised to make the data available to residents, families and the public in a user-friendly way. But some ...

A local hospital system has launched a new COVID-19 treatment program in an effort to keep its facilities from overcrowding. A new program at Duke University Health System aims to free up some beds in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For Janette Bissada, the cost of the pandemic has been high. For the better part of two years, the East Bay senior has stayed home, being mindful of COVID safety protocols and ...

The law, enacted last year, gave health care centers immunity from liability. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Tuesday night repealing a law that protected health care facilities, including ...

The House of Representatives unanimously voted to pass a bill Monday that extends the Medicare hospital at home program for ...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeated his infamous “who cares?” line during a grilling by a House committee Tuesday about his administration’s decision to send infected COVID-19 patients into ...

A year ago, the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency officially ended, and with it came the phasing out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s authorization to collect certain types ...

A woman whose mother died from Covid in a care home in 2021 says the facilities were effectively left “unregulated” during ...

A persistent symptom highlighted by a GP can help you tell Covid from a cold or the flu, especially when so many signs ...