CDC vaccine advisers recommend that both health care workers and residents of long term care facilities be first in line for any coronavirus vaccines that get emergency authorization from the FDA.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially voted Tuesday to recommend that health care workers and long-term care facility residents should be the first Americans to ...

Ethics panels tested as they determine seniors’ final wishes . Mary Gustafson. Mary Gustafson, McKnight’s Staff Writer ...

Healthcare personnel and residents of long-term-care facilities should be the first to receive a coronavirus vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on ...

Legislation sponsored by Sens. Troy Singleton, D-7th District; Richard Codey, D-27th District; and Joseph Vitale, D-19th District, that would establish requirements concerning the rights of ...

The Michigan House and Senate Oversight Committees heard testimony during a joint hearing Thursday over a letter detailing COVID deaths in the state’s long-term care facilities.

He urged the Committee to Study the Safety of Residents and Employees in Long-Term Care Facilities to recommend resuming the program. “I advocate for the resumption of the program,” Labore said, ...

Ethical issues that arise over long-term care are being discussed by medical staff as part of Ethics Awareness Week. Expert Christy Simpson, the head of the bioethics department at Dalhousie ...

Profit vs. care — it’s the never-ending tug-of-war in our long-term care sector. In Ontario, where two-thirds of all homes are private, for-profit facilities, it’s no great surprise that the ...

CDC vaccine advisers recommend that both health care workers and residents of long term care facilities be first in line for any coronavirus vaccines that get emergency authorization from the FDA.