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Tracy Kolterman died on Jan. 19 at age 60 after being hospitalized for five weeks. She was a licensed practical nurse at McCrite Plaza, a nursing home in Briarcliff.
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"These people are sitting ducks. I feel really fortunate to have gotten my parents vaccinated, but it wasn’t easy."
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Kansas pharmacies preparing for the massive effort to vaccinate people against COVID-19 are looking for more pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
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At least a third of the more than 300,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide have been reported among residents and employees of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
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An obituary that Courtney Farr wrote for readers in his small hometown struck a nerve nationally. It was a message of mourning for his father, and a plea for people to respect medicine and science.
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During a recent outbreak at Centennial Homestead in rural central Kansas, the nursing home had to wait five days for COVID-19 test results from a lab hours away.
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Despite taking recommended federal precautions to address COVID-19, the skilled nursing facility had a surge in cases, mirroring the surge in metropolitan Kansas City.
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Nearly 900 long-term care facilities in Missouri contracted with Gamma, including 459 of the state’s 504 skilled nursing facilities and more than 400 assisted living and residential care facilities.
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Federal regulators pulled the lab certifications of Gamma Healthcare of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, which provides diagnostic testing for hundreds of long-term care facilities in Missouri.
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Nursing homes that don't have the machines and kits need to send their samples to private labs, but some say the prices are impossible to afford long-term.
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Weeks into the outbreak at Riverbend in Kansas City, Kansas, inspectors still saw health workers caring for COVID-19 patients without proper protective gear.
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When it takes several days for nurse's aides to get a COVID-19 test and find out if they're sick, coworkers have to work long hours, picking up extra shifts.