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 Federal officials are trying to correct errors that resulted in shipments of outdated or impractical equipment to America’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A nurse at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle holds a medical face shield April 2 prior to the start of her shift in a triage tent outside the Harborview emergency department. Indiana nursing homes ...

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 ...

The association that represents nursing homes in West Virginia is expressing concerns about the supply of personal protective equipment now available for staff. Marty Wright Early on, as nursing homes ...

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 ...