Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re getting gowns that look more like large tarps – with no holes for hands – and surgical masks that are paper-thin as part ...

Across the United States, nursing homes trying to protect their residents from the coronavirus eagerly await boxes of masks, eyewear and gowns promised by the federal government. But all too often the ...

FEMA official said some equipment "just slipped through the cracks." Federal officials are trying to correct errors that resulted in shipments of outdated or impractical equipment to America’s ...

At 13 facilities, no documentation existed for testing generators The State health department is in charge of quality of life of 117,000 nursing home patients Health department officials dispute many ...

Since suffering a traumatic brain injury five years ago, Eliot Loshak, 87, has been unable to get out of bed on his own. His eyesight is heavily damaged, and he needs help from the staff at his ...

The association that represents nursing homes in West Virginia is expressing concerns about the supply of personal protective equipment now available for staff. Marty Wright Early on, as nursing homes ...

Around the country, nursing homes trying to protect their residents from the coronavirus eagerly await boxes of masks, eyewear and gowns promised by the federal government. But all too often the ...

Edie Starr, of South Windsor, right, talks to her brother Burt Deane through the window at Manchester Manor Health Care Center. When Deane was fighting with coronavirus a few months ago, Starr and her ...

Nearly a month after the state’s first nursing home residents died of COVID-19, many of Oklahoma’s long-term care facilities are struggling to find enough gowns and other protective equipment needed ...

At one of the largest nursing home chains in the United States, 45,000-bed Genesis Healthcare, the shortages of protective gowns for workers and the lack of quick testing has forced it to play ...

(CNN) — Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re getting gowns that look more like large tarps — with no holes for hands — and surgical masks that are paper-thin ...

As nursing homes remain the pandemic’s epicenter, the federal government is failing to ensure they have all the personal protective equipment, or PPE, needed to prevent the spread of the virus, ...