Post-Acute

In response to an order from the Trump administration, Nevada has reversed an order blocking nursing homes from using federally provided rapid COVID-19 antigen tests, reports The Wall Street Journal. 

The deaths of two dementia patients who passed away after altercations at two Wilmington, N.C., nursing homes will be included in the city's annual homicide total, reports NBC affiliate WECT.

Nevada has suspended the use of two rapid COVID-19 tests in nursing homes after the tests repeatedly delivered  false-positives, according to an Oct. 2 directive issued by the state health department.

The divide between post-acute and acute care providers has been shrinking for years. Today, with COVID-19 pandemic exposing vulnerabilities and gaps in the healthcare continuum, the importance of finally bridging that gap has never been clearer.

At least 57 people, including 46 residents, at Colchester, Conn.-based Harrington Court Nursing have tested positive for COVID-19, reports the Hartford Courant. 

Twenty-three New York nursing homes have been fined for COVID-19 safety violations since March, according to NBC affiliate WHEC-TV.

Nursing homes with a higher proportion of minority residents reported higher numbers of new COVID-19 cases than facilities with fewer minority residents, a new study shows.

Some nursing homes may send poor residents requiring extra care to emergency rooms or psychiatric hospitals and then deny them reentry, according to The New York Times.

Ohio police are investigating the death of an 86-year-old woman with dementia who was found in a nursing home's walk-in freezer several hours after the facility reported her missing Sept. 15, reports the Dayton Daily News.

Public health experts have identified staff members working at multiple facilities as contributors to the spread of COVID-19, according to The New York Times.