Look-Up: Check Out Infection Records Of 15,000 U.S. Nursing Homes

March 13, 2020

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More nursing homes have been faulted for failing to follow practices designed to prevent and control infections than for any other type of error. Such lapses have become matters of heightened concern with the spread of the coronavirus this spring, especially as the virus is a bigger threat to the elderly.

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