This story is produced as part of a larger project led by Matthew Brannon, a participant in the 2020 California Fellowship.
Patient Safety and Ethics
The virus has exposed what advocates for better treatment and families of loved ones in nursing facilities have known for years.
How do you cover the fake cures without giving them more oxygen than they deserve?
Recently, state and county officials rolled out plans for mass COVID-19 testing in nursing homes. But there’s no roadmap for widespread testing in another senior care venue: assisted living facilities.
Research shows home visiting programs can help prevent child abuse and neglect, improve school readiness, increase the physical and mental wellbeing of moms and kids.
Amid pandemic, young kids with special needs missing out on services
For Survivors of Violen
Charlie Ornstein of ProPublica and Reuters' Chris Kirkham talk strategy.
The lawsuit, among the earliest of its kind in California, accuses The Springs at Pacific Regent and its owner of negligence in responding to the novel coronavirus.
Scientists and reporters are watching for a full-blown COVID-19 resurgence. How will we know when we're there? Keep these confounding factors in mind.
Some were more well-known to the public than others but ‘they were all well-known to us and loved by us,’ said Bob Beitcher, president and CEO of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
Local leaders have described the deadly toll within skilled nursing facilities as a “pandemic within a pandemic.”