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Shows a sign reading, "The Oaks at Sweeten Creek/ Carrington Place condominiums" carved in the face in fancy letters. The rock is in front of a nursing home where multiple residents died of COVID.
Posted inAging

When a loved one dies at a nursing home, families face mazes and mirages in search for answers

by Thomas Goldsmith June 21, 2022June 20, 2022

By Thomas Goldsmith After a staff member at an Arden nursing home registered positive for COVID on Sept. 16, 2020, the Oaks at Sweeten Creek waited for eight days to test its 84 residents for COVID as required according to state records. During the next four weeks, 53 residents of Oaks at Sweeten Creek and […]

residents of nursing homes receiving grants from penalty payments enjoy a game of bingo.
Posted inAging

National report raises overarching questions on U.S. nursing home care

by Thomas Goldsmith and Rose Hoban June 15, 2022June 14, 2022
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, North Carolina spent close to $1.2 billion on nursing homes for elderly Medicaid recipients in 2013.
Posted inAging

Corporate owners of troubled Thomasville nursing home escape public spotlight in state hearing

by Thomas Goldsmith and Rose Hoban March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Shows a young woman sitting with an older man who is in a wheelchair, likely homebound, or could be in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility
Posted inAging

Biden’s promise of better nursing home care will require many more workers

by Kaiser Health News March 7, 2022March 7, 2022
shows the front of a building with several flags on poles, the American flag is at half staff, as there are dead COVID patients within. A sign in front of the building reads, "Heroes work here"
Posted inFeatured

NC Veterans Nursing Home managers get a new contract, profit boost, despite managing homes where COVID deaths took place

by Thomas Goldsmith October 26, 2021October 25, 2021
shows the back of a wheelchair, with an old and wizened hand on the arm of the chair
Posted inAging

Feds put ‘special focus’ on 10 NC nursing homes with sketchy performance records

by Thomas Goldsmith October 12, 2021April 1, 2022

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