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Nursing homes visitors have been banned since March because of COVID-19. Now the federal agency that regulates the facilities has outlined terms for resuming visits immediately.

The Trump administration has withdrawn a proposed rule that Florida health care providers were dreading and that was once described by a top state…

How do you inspect a nursing home or a hospital in the middle of a pandemic, or discipline a physician or a nurse?As COVID-19 has spread, the…

The federal government is continuing to deploy rapid coronavirus testing machines to nursing homes around the country.But providers say they're left to…

Some nursing home administrators in Florida say they're struggling to meet the federal government's requirement to test staff weekly in hotspot areas for…

Florida’s long-term care industry and a top state regulator are befuddled by what appears to be competing state and federal regulatory requirements for…

The Trump administration has announced plans to require certain nursing homes to test staff “and visitors” for COVID-19 once a week and opened the door to…

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about how Americans can learn to live with and survive COVID-19.

Despite fears that the move could cut access to health care for poor residents, Florida has won approval from the federal government for a change that…

The state expects to turn over management of the care of medically fragile children to a subsidiary of WellCare Health Plans beginning in January. The…