Staff shortages in hospice facilities around the country are causing some facilities to postpone patient care, according to an Oct. 16 report from The New York Times. 

More than 2,000 COVID-19 deaths occurred in U.S. nursing homes during a four-week period ending Sept. 19, nearly double the number of deaths compared to the four weeks prior, an Oct. 14 analysis of government data from the American Association of Retired Persons found. 

ClearSky Health, a leading rehabilitative healthcare provider, announced plans Oct. 8 to build a 30-bed rehabilitation hospital in Waxahachie, Texas.

The owner of seven nursing homes who evacuated more 843 residents to a warehouse during Hurricane Ida announced he would appeal the state's licensing revocations, according to BRProud.

Employees in adult and senior care facilities and in-home aides have been added to the list of California healthcare workers who must be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a Sept. 28 release from the California Department of Public Health. 

A North Carolina nursing home was cited by the state after maggots were found in an untreated wound on a patient's foot, according to an Oct. 4 report from FOX 46 Charlotte. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law Oct. 4 mandating a licensing moratorium and cracking down on kickbacks and patient recruiting schemes in the state's hospice care, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Mount Sinai Health System opened the Charles Lazarus Children's Abilities Center, which is being billed as the first innovative pediatric rehabilitation center in New York City, according to an Oct. 4 press release. 

An Oct. 1 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, using federal data collected between May 2020 and Aug. 24, 2021, found nursing homes reported 1,800 COVID-19-related deaths in August, a steady increase from the 350 reported deaths in July.

As a potential federal vaccination mandate for healthcare workers looms, Texas nursing homes are asking the state for $400 million in pandemic relief to combat staff shortages, according to an Oct. 2 report from the Texas Tribune.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health Systems announced Sept. 30 a partnership with Contessa, an acute home care management company, to offer Michigan patients acute home care beginning in December 2021.

Nursing homes with higher proportions of Black residents with dementia are more likely to see hospitalizations at end of life, a Sept. 28 study published in the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management found. 

Four residents and a staff member at Sterling Place nursing home in Baton Rouge, La., were hospitalized Sept. 28 after a carbon monoxide leak was detected, local ABC News affiliate WBRZ reports. 

Almost every U.S. nursing home (99 percent) and assisted living facility (96 percent) is facing a staffing shortage, according to a Sept. 22 survey from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living. 

CMS unveiled a tool Sept. 21 that allows users to track COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing home staff and residents. 

Nursing home aides were the staff members least likely to be vaccinated at more than 14,900 facilities nationwide, according to a research letter published Sept. 16 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The Louisiana Department of Health has revoked seven nursing home licenses and terminated their Medicaid provider agreements after the owner evacuated more than 800 residents to a warehouse where at least four residents died, the health department said Sept. 7.

Four Louisiana nursing home patients are dead and 15 required hospitalization after they were evacuated ahead of Hurricane Ida, according to a Sept. 2 news release from the Louisiana Department of Health.

The percentage of homebound, older adults in the U.S. substantially increased in 2020, more than doubling figures seen in the last decade, according to a study published Aug. 23 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living is expressing concern that a requirement that all nursing home workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 could become a "disastrous workforce challenge."