Senate Aging Committee Minority Members Release Report On COVID-19 in Nursing Homes

Last week, three minority members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging—Ranking Member Sen.  Bob Casey (D-PA) and  Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR)—released a new report, COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: How the Trump Administration Failed Residents and Workers.

• The report includes nine findings across four categories, including:
• Lack of data on COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths in nursing homes
• Delayed provision of support to nursing homes, including personal protective equipment (PPE) and funding
• Absence of a national testing strategy
• Delayed and inadequately supported oversight in nursing homes

The report also includes a series of recommendations on the urgent actions that are needed to address the crisis in nursing homes. These include ensuring adequate data collection, supporting states and nursing homes with funding, providing PPE and testing to nursing homes, investing in home and community-based services, facilitating promising strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19, elevating the workforce, improving emergency management and infection control, and anticipating and mitigating future needs.

Click here to read the entire report.