Columbia School of Nursing, located in New York City, is a leader in graduate nursing education, preparing nurses at all levels and in all specialties to meet the challenges of healthcare.
In New York City, more personal-protection equipment to be distributed to nursing homes
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a requirement for hospital patients to test negative for the coronavirus before they can be discharged to nursing homes.
New York ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals. At the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Long Island, that's made it hard to contain the disease.
Recent outbreaks have been in central and western New York, where areas around Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse are hot spots
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COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes were undercounted by as much as 50%, an investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James shows.
In an analysis of 78 nursing homes in New York where six or more residents have died from COVID-19, NPR found nursing homes with more people of color were more likely to have more deaths.
In January 2021, Attorney General of New York Letitia James released a report finding that Governor Andrew Cuomo had understated the toll of COVID-19-related deaths in state nursing homes by as much as 83 percent. The scandal was made public on February 11, 2021, when the New York Post rep...
Many Americans prefer to believe the Covid pandemic is a thing of the past. But for the nation’s nursing homes, the effects have yet to fully fade, with staffing shortages and employee burnout still at crisis levels and many facilities struggling to stay afloat, according to a new report published Thursday by federal investigators. “Just as airplanes cannot be repaired while in flight, nursing home challenges could not be fully repaired during the pandemic,” she said. “We feel very stron...