At the beginning of May, Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed a bill that would have allowed the Arizona board that oversees licenses for nursing home and assisted living administrators to operate for eight more years. Instead, Ducey wants the Legislature to transfer the board’s responsibility to the Arizona State Health Department.
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Local school districts will be guided to reopen by the number of coronavirus cases in their county per capita, the percent of positive cases from testing and the percentage of people hospitalized with COVID-19.
Community spread in each Arizona county will be broken down into "minimal, moderate or substantial" categories.
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President Trump announced the formation of an independent commission last week to address the troubling number of coronavirus cases in nursing homes across the country. The Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the nursing home response to the pandemic.
The...Arizona News
Providers are grappling with how to provide care for a virus with a myriad of uncertainties still looming. Several states are moving to protect healthcare facilities from lawsuits related to coronavirus care, including Arizona.
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on long-term care facilities where vulnerable populations live in...Arizona News
The spread of coronavirus in nursing homes has yielded disturbing death tolls among residents and a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms people infected with the virus are contributing to the spread without displaying any symptoms.
The study concludes that "rapid and...Arizona News
A state task force established by Gov. Doug Ducey after an incapacitated woman in the care of Hacienda Healthcare was raped and gave birth last December, issued a report with recommendations to help prevent future incidents.
The 28-page report included 30 recommendations, among them are: improving reporting requirements, better...Arizona News
After years of noncompliance in inmate care, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver threatened additional fines of more that $1 million earlier last month and now the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) is asking her to hold off on imposing the financial penalties.
The inmate lawsuit was settled in 2015, but over three years later,...Arizona News
In December, a 29-year-old woman in a vegetative state for over a decade gave birth to a baby boy and initiated a rape investigation that bled into the new year. Last week, Gov. Doug Ducey called for a "complete replacement" of the board at Hacienda Healthcare. Now that the alleged perpetrator, Nathan Sutherland, has been arrested,...
