Jamesville, N.Y.-based Iroquois Nursing Home has been cited for a severe safety violation after a 78-year-old patient jumped out a window on the facility's second floor, reports The Post-Standard.

Eight of nine senior managers at New Jersey's state-run veterans nursing homes made too much money to qualify for COVID-19 hazard pay, but received it anyway, according to records cited by The Wall Street Journal.

The ex-manager of Darby, Pa.-based St. Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Health Care has pleaded no contest to recklessly endangering three residents who died after the facility cut staffing, according to a June 3 release from Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

The average price per bed in a nursing home was $88,600 in 2020, marking a 22 percent increase from 2019, according to annual survey findings published May 26. 

Under a new law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, information about communicable diseases spreading inside long-term care facilities and nursing homes is no longer considered "protected health information," local ABC affiliate KVUE reported May 24. 

Atlanta-based SavaSeniorCare will pay $11.2 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by pressuring its skilled nursing facilities to bill Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were unnecessary, the U.S. Department of Justice announced May 21. 

Unvaccinated residents who live in nursing homes where others have been vaccinated against COVID-19 have a low risk of contracting the virus, a research letter published May 19 in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests. 

Below are nursing homes linked to the most COVID-19 cases since March 2020, The New York Times reported.

The Joint Commission has collected data on compliance with standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation and Certification Participation Requirements to identify trends surrounding challenging requirements.

Nationwide, 23 percent of certified nursing facilities received a deficiency for actual harm or jeopardy in 2019, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

CMS issued a rule May 11 that will require nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to provide and track COVID-19 vaccinations given to staff and residents.

More than 100 Colorado nursing homes fined by CMS in 2020 for poor infection control and other pandemic-related failures also pocketed financial bonuses tied to infection rates from HHS, according to an investigation by NBC affiliate KUSA.

An Idaho nursing home is shutting down and relocating more than 120 residents in less than 30 days after losing CMS funding, reports NBC affiliate KTVB.

An unvaccinated employee at a Kentucky skilled nursing facility sparked an outbreak that infected 18 residents who were fully vaccinated, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published April 21. 

The Connecticut Department of Public Health issued an emergency order to Apple Rehab Rocky Hill (Conn.) nursing home April 14 after Legionella bacteria was detected in water samples from the facility. 

The policy director of the American Hospital Association, the CEO of a Chicago-area long-term hospital and a pulmonologist discussed the role of treating patients experiencing "long COVID-19" in an AHA podcast published April 14.

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an act April 6 repealing the immunity and protection granted last year to healthcare facilities and professionals treating COVID-19 patients.

Nearly half of the staff at Forest Hills of D.C. nursing home in Washington turned down their chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it was first offered to them in January. After months of gentle persuading efforts by the facility's chief executive, 79 percent of staff are now vaccinated, The New York Times reported March 28. 

One resident died and a firefighter was reported missing after a massive fire broke out early March 23 at the Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley, N.Y., The New York Times reported. 

Burlington, Wash.-based Prestige Care and Rehabilitation will be shuttering, putting its 54 residents in limbo, according to NBC's KING-TV.