An outbreak of COVID-19 has now struck a second South Valley nursing home. Lindsay Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility has had 11 residents test positive for COVID-19, the Tulare County health department announced Wednesday. The 99-bed skilled nursing facility is in Lindsay, about 13 miles east of the city of...
Coronavirus Cases Surge to 47 at Visalia Nursing Home
Tulare County health officials reported Tuesday that 47 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at Redwood Springs Healthcare Center, a Visalia nursing home, where one person has died. One individual is being treated at a hospital, and the rest are in isolation at the healthcare center. A week ago, the Tulare County...
Nursing Home Infections, Deaths Surge Amid Lockdown Measures
Nursing homes across the country have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since suggests that the measures including a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too...
Grim Find: Bodies of Virus Victims in Spanish Nursing Homes
MADRID — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday. Defense Minister Margarita Robles said the elderly residents were “completely left to fend for themselves, or...
More Americans Are Dying at Home Rather Than in Hospitals
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people say they want. Deaths in nursing homes also have declined, according to Wednesday's report in the New...