For family of nursing home residents, 2020 is time they will never get back
For thousands of Hoosiers, the pandemic has produced an unbearable separation that has kept family members from heir loved ones in nursing homes.
For thousands of Hoosiers, the pandemic has produced an unbearable separation that has kept family members from heir loved ones in nursing homes.
A record-setting 1,926 Hoosiers died in December of COVID-19, capping off a deadly year when over 8,000 Indiana residents have died of the virus.
More than 1,300 members of the Indiana National Guard will be deployed to help the 133 hardest hit nursing homes next week to combat the coronavirus.
Gov. Eric Holcomb announced on Wednesday that he would send members of the National Guard into nursing homes to help an “exhausted” staff care for residents.
New data show that Indiana has long been undercounting the state’s coronavirus cases and deaths in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
New nursing home data released by the state on Wednesday show an additional 128 deaths that were previously reported, an increase of about 10%.
Indiana officials will move towards releasing facility-level data for COVID-19 in nursing homes, a drastic departure from previous policy.
Dozens of people gathered in front of the headquarters of the Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police in the latest protest against police brutality.
A few hundred people gathered in Johnson County for a demonstration against racial injustice and in support of Black Lives Matter.
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in Indiana, Linda Bonaventura never dreamed of walking away from her job as a nurse.