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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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The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revised its guidance last month, requiring nursing homes to allow visitation at all times. This comes as a welcome relief for families before the holidays, but also amid growing concern about the Omicron variant.
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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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Frozen meal pick-ups are just one of the ways Erie County’s Department of Senior Services has had to adapt it’s congregate dining program throughout the pandemic.
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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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Buffalo and Erie County Stopping Abuse in the Family Environment, or BE SAFE, is a collaborative aiding victims of domestic violence, especially more vulnerable populations. It’s getting a million-dollar boost from the federal government to supplement efforts to protect and advocate for elderly and disabled victims.
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Whoever Buffalo’s next mayor is — be it Byron Brown or India Walton — has to balance the wishes of older homeowners who want to age in place, with the market demands of young families looking for their first homes.
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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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For many years, there has been a belief in a connection between older women drinking a lot of coffee or tea and high rates of breast cancer. Not so, says a new study from the University at Buffalo.