A new report on four Michigan nursing home chains scrutinizes their use of affiliate companies to pay themselves for services, as complaints about care mount.
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Opinion | Congress must protect staffing standards in nursing homes
Minimum staffing standards help protect the basic right of nursing home residents to live with dignity. We know it is what the American people want.
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Staffing woes foil Michigan efforts to keep residents out of nursing homes
The popular MI Choice program, which keeps low-income seniors and disabled residents in their homes, now has 4,000 open positions as state agencies struggle to hire direct-care staffers, even after offering higher pay.
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Gretchen Whitmer COVID report card: Lives saved, economy hurt, test scores fall
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first term was defined by COVID. A Bridge analysis finds the facts are clear: Her orders spared lives, but did so at a cost to the economy and K-12 learning.
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Emails: Michigan health director urged ‘edits’ to nursing home death audit
New documents reveal tense internal debate over an explosive audit review that identified new COVID-19 deaths at Michigan nursing homes and other long-term care facilities that had not been previously disclosed.
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Auditor: Don’t call Michigan nursing home deaths undercount. GOP presses on.
Michigan’s auditor general says it’s ‘unfair’ to say his report found Whitmer’s administration gave inaccurate tallies of deaths from COVID. Republicans demand an investigation.
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Report: More than 8,000 COVID deaths in Michigan were in long-term care
The report from the Michigan Auditor General places the death toll in long-term care higher than the state’s official count, but notes that some of those may be at facilities not required to report.
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Michigan accused of undercounting COVID deaths in long-term care facilities
The head of the state’s health department says she stands by the data, claiming a state auditor general review is politically motivated.
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Michigan nursing home staff shortage raises peril, adds to hospital woes
On top of continued isolation at many of Michigan’s nursing homes amid COVID, nearly 9,000 fewer workers now care for nursing home residents — raising concern about the well-being of those who live there.
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COVID still isolates some in Michigan nursing homes. It may get worse.
Long-term care facilities had relaxed visitation as the summer opened and COVID cases fell. Some families say the rules are tightening again; a few said they never changed in the first place.