This Nursing Home Chain Stood Out for Nationally High Death Rates as Pandemic Peaked
Co-published with USA Today. A first-ever USA TODAY analysis of nursing home ownership shows how Trilogy, a real estate-trust backed chain, fared during the worst of the pandemic.
The Longest 80 Miles: How Nursing Home Evictions Tear Families Apart
Co-published with The American Prospect and reprinted in Autostraddle. In upstate New York, a nursing home eviction due to a debt has indefinitely separated …
It Has the Highest Death Rate of Any Nursing Home in America. Families Want To Know Why.
Co-published with The Guardian. As numbers climbed at a facility for veterans in New Jersey, the rights of grieving family members fell away.
Seniors and Staff Caught in the Middle of Nursing Homes’ Quest for Profit
Co-published with The Guardian. The cycle of buying and selling care homes has led to shortcuts, closures, even fraud – and imperiled vulnerable residents’ health.
Rehab in a Nursing Home During a Pandemic: A Patient’s Story
Co-published with Pittsburgh City Paper. For people with disabilities, an extended stay in a rehab or nursing facility during a pandemic can be especially worrying.
Transfer Trauma: America’s Seniors Suffer as Care System Pushes Them Between Sites
Co-published with The Guardian. Unequal payment plans drive some corporate nursing home facilities to shed – or in some cases “hospital dump” – residents, distressing delicate …