River City Care Center in San Antonio, the region's designated COVID-19 isolation facility since April, is facing a state-issued fine of at least $120,000 after an investigation from earlier this summer concluded unsafe conditions put its 50 residents at risk, reports KSAT. 

U.S. News and World Report published its 11th annual 2021 Best Nursing Home rankings Oct. 27. 

The families of 15 current and former residents at Beaver, Pa.-based Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center filed an Oct. 21 lawsuit against the nursing home, claiming it inadequately responded to a COVID-19 outbreak that's been linked to 73 deaths at the facility, reports Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

As nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in Indiana surpass 2,200, Gov. Eric Holcomb will deploy the state's National Guard members next month to help protect people in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, reports Indiana's The Times. 

All 62 residents at a Kansas nursing home contracted COVID-19, according to CBS' KOLN.

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. 

The Special Focus Facility, a CMS-run program that oversees 88 of the nation's most problematic nursing homes, didn't inspect facilities for nearly five months due to the pandemic, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of CMS data and as reported by WECT.

Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services is forming a post-acute business with Dallas-based AccentCare, the organizations said Sept. 1.

Two Connecticut nursing homes have been fined for failing to test all employees for COVID-19,  despite an executive order to test all employees weekly, according to the Hartford Courant. 

Three Maryland nursing homes are facing six-figure fines for infection control deficiencies that inspectors say put residents in "immediate jeopardy" amid the pandemic, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.