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After a terrible year in long-term care, many states are now reporting that their cases and deaths are dropping according to the AP: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-cases-drop-us-elderly-homes-c889d733d127465f0ff858156daafe40 This is truly welcome news. COVID-19 was responsible for approximately 153,000 death in long-term care. 36% of the total pandemic mortality rate was due to death in long-term care. Further aggravating
The Right of Nursing Home Residents Residents of nursing homes in New Jersey have specific rights afforded to them by law, including the right to visitation. Specifically, the New Jersey Administrative Code provides residents with the following rights: To have reasonable opportunities for private and intimate physical and social interaction with other people, including arrangements
Universal Testing in Nursing Homes during the Covid -19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to nursing home residents across the country. New Jersey and Pennsylvania are amongst the states hardest hit with an estimated 2,600 thousand lives lost in Pennsylvania nursing homes. New Jersey’s numbers are even worse. Estimates indicate that nearly
On April 16, 2020, Gurbir S. Grewal, Esq., the New Jersey Attorney General, announced that his office had opened a statewide investigation into the high number of COVID-19 related deaths at New Jersey’s long-term care facilities and nursing homes. The stated purpose of his investigation was to determine whether there was evidence that anyone broke
According to news reports, residents of nursing homes account for roughly half of the reported deaths from COVID-19. The reason for this is relatively obvious, as seniors tend to have a higher-than-average number of co-morbidities and tend to have immune systems that are less robust than younger people. Against this backdrop, there has been a
Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect lawyer As a Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect lawyer, it has been my experience that many nursing homes and their ancillary service providers have common ownership. That is, the same persons or entities which own the facility, frequently own the facility’s related management company, real estate holdings company, temporary staffing