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A Basin nursing home has closed because the hospital that owned the it didn’t have the money to keep subsidizing the care center.The cost of operating Three River Healths’ Bonnie Bluejacket Memorial Nursing Home for the past six years has been more than the revenue earned.
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The pandemic amplified nursing homes' long-standing workforce issues. Those staffing shortages persist, as nearly a quarter of nursing homes in the U.S. report not having enough nurses or aides.
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Nursing homes are struggling financially, which has led to many closing nationally. A Greybull care center is considering closing as well. But it may have found a temporary bandage.
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COVID-19 cases in nursing homes are climbing, and a new report reveals a wide range of case and vaccination rates in the Mountain West.
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Health care worker vaccine mandate presses forward while state worries of even worse staff shortagesLast week, the Supreme Court allowed the federal health care worker coronavirus vaccine mandate to go through. A lower court had put the mandate on pause in late November. Now any employee, volunteer or contractor working at health care facilities receiving Medicaid or Medicare funding has to be fully vaccinated, be tested weekly or provide an exemption by Feb. 28.
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More than half of Wyoming's nursing home residents have gotten a COVID-19 booster – that puts them above the national average.
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The Biden administration announced last month that it will require nursing home staff to get vaccinated, or facilities could face losing federal funding. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska reports state facilities are concerned this will increase the existing staff shortage.
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The Biden administration announced last month that it will require nursing home staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Facilities that don't comply could lose federal funding. But nursing home administrators are worried it could end up hurting already significant staff shortages.
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The Wyoming Department of Health states there has been only one COVID-19 death in a Wyoming nursing home since mid-March of 2021, along with just a handful of overall cases.
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AARP is a non-profit dedicated to the wellness of people over 50. It partnered with Miami University in Ohio to provide four-week snapshots of COVID-19's…