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.