Back in March, the Wisconsin Elections Commission barred election deputies from entering nursing homes to help residents cast absentee ballots, citing concerns of spreading Covid-19 to the elderly and disabled. That decision will carry through to the November election. During a meeting of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission yesterday, Republican Commissioner Dean Knudson stood by […]
Lives Lost: Nursing Homes and Armed Militias
First up in today’s two-part show, Patrick Woodall from Americans for Financial Reform talks about the problem of private equity firms in the healthcare sector and offers details from his latest co-authored report, “The Deadly Combination Of Private Equity And Nursing Homes During A Pandemic.” Then, Reveal journalist Stan Alcorn tells us about his reporting […]
Wisconsin DHS releases names of nursing homes affected by COVID-19
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services released the names of nursing homes that have had a case of COVID-19. Thirty eight across the state are under active investigation, which means at least one resident or staff member has tested positive for COVID-19 in the past four weeks. After that four week period, an investigation […]
Wisconsin nursing homes to receive COVID-19 tests
Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services will be testing every nursing home resident in the state for COVID-19, starting this month. The tests will be free to facility residents. Governor Evers announced the testing plans in a press briefing earlier today. “The state will provide free testing and diagnostics to all 373 nursing homes to test […]
