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As COVID-19 numbers reach levels not seen since spring of 2020, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday announced new regulations for visitors at nursing homes. Visitors will have to wear surgical masks, as opposed to a cloth mask, and present a negative COVID test within 24 hours of the visit.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has suspended the state’s new nursing homes laws regarding staffing levels and profits, citing a shortage of health care workers.
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Nursing homes are suing to stop New York from limiting their profits, one of the state’s cornerstone measures to crack down on the long-term care industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Workers at a nonprofit nursing home in Getzville say they have a tentative contract agreement that will make them the highest-paid nursing home workers in Western New York, but that the long-pending sale of their facility is once again holding the contract up.
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New regulations on staffing levels and profits are set to shake up New York’s nursing home industry when they take effect Jan. 1. The laws are already having something of an impact, but there’s still a question as to whether they’ll actually go into effect come New Year's Day.
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REPORT JUST RELEASED: The New York Assembly's investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's conduct in office concluded the Democrat's administration misrepresented how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19, according to a lawmaker who reviewed the committee's still-secret report.
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What was supposed to be a picket demanding better wages, turned into something closer to a party atmosphere Wednesday outside Buffalo Community Healthcare Center.
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Weinberg Campus employees say the long-stalled sale of the facility to a for-profit nursing home chain is hurting their ability to get a long-term contract.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she has apologized to family members of nursing home residents who died at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York.
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According to state data, 22% of nursing home staff in Western New York are unvaccinated. Only the Mohawk Valley region has a higher percentage of unvaxxed nursing home staff.