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At least 14 nursing homes in New York City and its suburbs have recorded more than 25 coronavirus-related deaths, according to new data from the state Health Department that shows the virus’s impact on individual facilities, and five had 40 or more.The homes that have been hit hardest are the Cobble Hill Health Center, a…

Workers at a Southeast Portland nursing home that has now reported 14 coronavirus deaths failed to wash their hands, got only one mask per shift and weren’t trained on how to control the spread of infection, the state said Thursday.Healthcare at Foster Creek has become the site of the largest known cluster of coronavirus cases…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A nursing home in California is now under investigation after at least 13 people died from coronavirus there and dozens were sickened.The Alameda County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday it opened a probe into the Gateway Rehabilitation and Care Center in Hayward, Calif.,…

After the first positive coronavirus test at a Virginia nursing home in mid-March, its administrator said, the staff restricted visitors, conducted temperature checks at the end of every worker’s shift and isolated residents who had tested positive into separate areas.Even so, there suddenly was another case. Within two weeks, dozens of others inside were falling…

The death toll at a Hayward nursing home with a large coronavirus outbreak increased to 11 Tuesday with the death of a community leader there, and another Alameda County facility recorded its first death, health officials announced. The death at East Bay Post Acute Care in Castro Valley, where 45 patients and staff are stricken…