Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re getting gowns that look more like large tarps – with no holes for hands – and surgical masks that are paper-thin as part ...

FEMA official said some equipment "just slipped through the cracks." Federal officials are trying to correct errors that resulted in shipments of outdated or impractical equipment to America’s ...

Nearly a month after the state’s first nursing home residents died of COVID-19, many of Oklahoma’s long-term care facilities are struggling to find enough gowns and other protective equipment needed ...

Kelly Womochil, an aide at Enterprise Estates Nursing Center in Kansas, tries on a poncho that FEMA is sending to nursing homes to protect against the coronavirus. (Courtesy of Pamela Black) Around ...

The University of Northern Iowa will use a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to purchase new equipment for its nursing program. (Photo courtesy of University of Northern Iowa) Students ...

Nursing employees have historically been taught to use “proper body mechanics” to safely lift and move patients, but researchers concluded there is no safe way to manually complete the task, according ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Local nursing schools are giving up their medical supplies in order to help area hospitals dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. On Monday, March 23, faculty from the MSOE School ...

Thousands of Covid-19 rapid-testing devices are sitting idle in nursing homes around the country, even as some of the facilities face delays in getting results from outside labs, according to federal ...

At one of the largest nursing home chains in the United States, 45,000-bed Genesis Healthcare, the shortages of protective gowns for workers and the lack of quick testing has forced it to play ...

Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re getting gowns that look more like large tarps – with no holes for hands – and surgical masks that are paper-thin as part ...