Tag: long-term care facilities

Commemorating a difficult year for older adults & their caretakers

February 26, 2021.Reading time 13 minutes.

Over the past year, many of us have encountered milestones we never expected to experience: a first holiday season alone; an entire school semester online; nearly a year without hugging friends or family. This week marks another sad COVID-19 milestone – the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed death from COVID-19 in the U.S., which happened here in King County.

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Testing in Long-Term Care Facilities – A Conversation with State Long-Term Care Ombuds

June 9, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

By Ingrid Ulrey, Policy Director, PHSKC Residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult family homes are at high risk for serious illness and death from Covid-19, as we outlined in a recent blog. Washington State Department of Health Director John Wiesman issue an order requiring COVID-19 testing for all nursing home residents and […]

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Protecting residents in long-term care facilities – progress and challenges

May 13, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

A looming heartbreak in the coronavirus pandemic is the impact of the virus on people living in long-term care facilities such as skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult family homes. Locally and nationally, the biggest outbreaks have been in these facilities, which house and care for more than 12,000 people in King County.

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