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During a recent outbreak at Centennial Homestead in rural central Kansas, the nursing home had to wait five days for COVID-19 test results from a lab hours away.
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Nursing homes that don't have the machines and kits need to send their samples to private labs, but some say the prices are impossible to afford long-term.
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When Mary Malone turned 61, family members couldn’t come closer than the other side of a nursing home window.Malone, a nanny and housekeeper described as…
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Weeks into the outbreak at Riverbend in Kansas City, Kansas, inspectors still saw health workers caring for COVID-19 patients without proper protective gear.
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When it takes several days for nurse's aides to get a COVID-19 test and find out if they're sick, coworkers have to work long hours, picking up extra shifts.
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Death rates dropped when Kansas shut down large swaths of its economy in late March, but a sharp increase in hospitalizations this month could change that.
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After months apart, families in Lindsborg, Kansas, long to be in the same room again, to give each other hugs and hold each other's hands.
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Many residents of a Clearwater nursing home where 11 deaths from COVID-19 are now being reported were not given baths for more than five weeks, its former…
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At Least 8 Lawsuits Are Now Pending Against Kansas City, Kansas, Rehab Facility Over COVID-19 DeathsThe 36 deaths at Riverbend account for half the COVID-19-related deaths in Wyandotte County.
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Brighton Gardens, a Prairie Village nursing home, was sued on Monday, the first lawsuit alleging wrongful death for a resident’s COVID-19.