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Israeli telehealth startup TytoCare and Japan's commercial insurance provider, Sompo, sign collaboration agreement in presence of economy ministers of both countries. (David Hacohen/Courtesy)
September 12, 2023, 8:41 pm
Japan’s Sompo taps Israeli telehealth startup for medical diagnosis of the elderly
TytoCare’s AI-based device for remote medical checks of heart, lungs, skin, ears, throat and belly will be deployed in nursing homes and the elderly care market throughout Japan
By Sharon Wrobel
An El Al plane lands at Ben Gurion international airport on October 13, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 29, 2023, 3:59 am
NY alleges El Al owner used Medicaid funds meant for elderly to buy airline instead
Lawsuit accuses Kenneth Rozenberg and others behind Centers Health Care of neglecting nursing home residents, defrauding US out of $83 million; airline not named as defendant
By ToI Staff and AP
Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)
July 20, 2022, 12:22 pm
Caregiver held on suspicion of indecent assault of Jerusalem nursing home resident
Police believe 72-year-old female resident may have been attacked multiple times over an extended period of time, are investigating if others were also abused
By Ash Obel
Illustrative: A woman feeds an elderly woman at an aged care home in Israel, October 17, 2002. (Flash90)
February 22, 2022, 5:20 pm
Disgruntled diplomats said refusing to process visas for Nepalese nursing home staff
Some 1,000 workers not being let into Israel due to labor dispute, according to report, as representative of geriatric institutions declares extreme shortage of care providers
By ToI Staff
Magen David Adom workers outside a nursing home in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 15, 2021, 6:12 pm
16 retirement home residents contract COVID-19, most of them vaccinated
All are currently asymptomatic; Health Ministry will investigate if the residents were infected with a variant strain
By ToI Staff
In this Sept. 14, 2018 file photo, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, is joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as she speaks to reporters during a news conference, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer, File)
March 5, 2021, 5:53 pm
Cuomo aides reportedly altered count of nursing home COVID deaths
NY governor under fire after officials edit July report to include only people who died in long-term care facilities, not those who became ill there but died later at a hospital
By AP
Nursing home residents in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines at Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility in New York, January 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
January 29, 2021, 12:52 am
New York undercounted COVID nursing home deaths by thousands, state’s AG says
76-page report finds numbers lowballed by more than 50%, backing earlier findings that state was one of few in US that didn’t count residents who eventually died in hospitals
By MARINA VILLENEUVE, Bernard Condon and Matt Sedensky
Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Montreal. (Screen capture/Global News)
December 12, 2020, 2:16 am
Jewish nursing home in Montreal will be Quebec’s 1st to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Dozens have died of virus in Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre; staff and residents could begin receiving shots as early as Friday night
By David Lazarus
Aryeh Even, Israel's first fatality in the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy)
August 20, 2020, 6:41 pm
Family of Israel’s 1st COVID fatality sues state, nursing home for negligence
Children of Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even say he could have been spared infection by social worker at senior home had the worker been tested sooner
By ToI Staff
Medics work with COVID-19 patients at the isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on July 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
August 2, 2020, 1:01 pm
Testing slumps over weekend, but number of serious cases continues to rise
5 new deaths take toll to 531; outbreak in Bnei Brak nursing home; Health Ministry said to change rules so quarantine counts from date of test rather than receiving of results
By ToI Staff
Margaret Choinacki, center, 87, who has no other family members left because her husband and daughter have died, waves goodbye after a drive-by visit by her friend Frances Reaves, as resident care coordinator Anggy Volmar, right, wheels her back inside, Friday, July 17, 2020, at Miami Jewish Health in Miami (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
July 25, 2020, 12:45 am
Rising virus cases begin to overwhelm Florida nursing homes
Soaring infections have transformed facilities into closely guarded fortresses, with many buckling under the heavy financial burden of testing and safety requirements
By Adriana Gomez Licon and KELLI KENNEDY
The Mishan assisted living facility in Beersheba (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)
July 17, 2020, 8:14 pm
Four new virus cases found in Beersheba nursing home that saw 14 deaths
Management at Mishan facility orders self-isolation for all residents, additional testing, after 3 employees and resident diagnosed
By ToI Staff
'Roma-Bowie' (Robert Speker/Sydmar Lodge)
July 17, 2020, 12:23 pm
UK Jewish seniors go viral as they rock iconic album covers during lockdown
Keeping busy despite a ban on visitors, residents of Sydmar Lodge recreate famous images of musical artists such as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and Elvis Presley
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington (Courtesy)
June 13, 2020, 1:33 am
A DC-area Hebrew Home creates new norms amid a pandemic, but are they enough?
The head of Maryland’s largest skilled nursing center explains how the facility has changed its policies while dealing with the ‘unknown unknowns’ of the coronavirus outbreak
By Eric Cortellessa
Debra Schackner (Courtesy)
May 21, 2020, 2:31 am
Inside a Maryland woman’s struggle to keep her mother alive in a nursing home
Long-term care facilities have been hardest hit by COVID-19, leaving the children of patients scrambling to help them when they can’t be physically present
By Eric Cortellessa
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