Long-term care deaths top 5,000 as Indiana officials push COVID vaccine, legal immunity
Victim’s son: “I was one that was sitting outside their window watching them die … I don’t think government officials really saw that or felt it.”
Tim Evans, Emily Hopkins and Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star
Poor staffing, missed reforms, 3,100 COVID deaths: How Indiana failed nursing home residents
COVID-19 has ravaged Indiana nursing homes. Failed reforms may have kept hundreds of nursing home residents safe from the coronavirus — and more.
More than 2,000 Hoosiers in nursing homes have now died of COVID-19
More than 2,000 nursing home and assisted living residents in Indiana have now died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Matt Gutwein is out at HHC. Can the agency’s board improve its nursing homes?
Here are some reforms advocates say they want to see in the wake of Gutwein’s resignation.
‘Reeks of cronyism’: Indiana still hiding nursing home coronavirus info, advocates say
Information remains basically hidden by state officials even though nursing homes account for nearly one-third of all of Indiana’s COVID-19 deaths.