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The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached last year was arrested on Wednesday.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee backed a proposal that would help shield health providers from lawsuits until June 1, 2023.
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A new study by the nonprofit news service Climate Central presents another grim outlook for the elderly in South Florida: more nursing homes and assisted living facilities at risk from flooding than other coastal states.
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Infectious disease experts say the U.S. needs to vaccinate 75 to 85% of the public to end the pandemic so a Kentucky-based company with facilities around Florida, called Atria Senior Living, has decided to require its roughly 10,000 staff members to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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This post will be updated today, Friday, Nov. 6, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.
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State lawmakers required all nursing homes and assisted living facilities to update information such as the building's current occupancy and generator capability.
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South Florida became the focus of Florida’s fight against COVID-19 this week. About half of the confirmed cases in the state are in Miami-Dade and Broward…
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It's been nearly a week since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banned visitors at nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in an effort to prevent the…
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Florida’s large population of senior citizens and people without health insurance make the state vulnerable to the threat posed by an outbreak of…
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When Hurricane Irma made landfall in South Florida nearly two years ago, it knocked out power across the region — in some areas for up to 10 days. A dozen…
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State health-care regulators have fined a South Florida assisted living facility $1,000 for a bedbug infestation, according to state documents. Agency for…
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A Florida Senate panel Tuesday instructed the Agency for Health Care Administration to draft legislation --- fast --- that would allow the state to shut…