Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re getting gowns that look more like large tarps – with no holes for hands – and surgical masks that are paper-thin as part ...

Kelly Womochil, an aide at Enterprise Estates Nursing Center in Kansas, tries on a poncho that FEMA is sending to nursing homes to protect against the coronavirus. (Courtesy of Pamela Black) Around ...

Nearly a month after the state’s first nursing home residents died of COVID-19, many of Oklahoma’s long-term care facilities are struggling to find enough gowns and other protective equipment needed ...

The University of Northern Iowa will use a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to purchase new equipment for its nursing program. (Photo courtesy of University of Northern Iowa) Students ...

Thousands of Covid-19 rapid-testing devices are sitting idle in nursing homes around the country, even as some of the facilities face delays in getting results from outside labs, according to federal ...

Across the United States, nursing homes trying to protect their residents from the coronavirus eagerly await boxes of masks, eyewear and gowns promised by the federal government. But all too often the ...

The association that represents nursing homes in West Virginia is expressing concerns about the supply of personal protective equipment now available for staff. Marty Wright Early on, as nursing homes ...

At one of the largest nursing home chains in the United States, 45,000-bed Genesis Healthcare, the shortages of protective gowns for workers and the lack of quick testing has forced it to play ...

Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re getting gowns that look more like large tarps – with no holes for hands – and surgical masks that are paper-thin as part ...