long term care

Some long-term care facilities in Florida will be able to open their doors for visitors as soon as Wednesday, September 2, in Florida.

Many people in Florida who live in nursing homes have gone more than five months without visitors. Now, as residents are about to receive visitors again, they also have a new advocate looking out for them.

A ban on visitation at Florida’s 4,000 long-term care facilities expires in early September, and Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to reopen doors to residents’…

Florida should allow the resumption of face-to-face visits in nursing homes --- and let certain visitors touch residents --- under recommendations…

A task force set up by Gov. Ron DeSantis reached broad agreement Tuesday on a plan that would reopen nursing homes to “essential” and “compassionate”…

The Trump administration’s latest effort to use COVID-19 rapid tests — touted by one senior official as a “turning point” in arresting the coronavirus’s…

It’s unlikely that Florida will mandate all nursing homes reopen to all visitors any time soon.Instead, a panel appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed…

A new report says COVID-19 cases in U.S. nursing homes jumped nearly 80% earlier this summer, driven by rampant spread across the South and much of the…

Florida’s new long-term care ombudsman does not serve on a panel appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to discuss reopening nursing homes to visitors amid the…

Top health care regulators in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration on Friday discussed a limited reopening of nursing homes and other long-term care...