For someone who got a late start chasing turkeys, Ray Jones of Huntsville has spent the last 60 years catching up.
In fact, Jones, 86, reached and surpassed a milestone this season by bagging the 400th and 401st turkeys of his career.
The reason he got off to such a slow start was because he lived in far north Alabama where turkeys were scarce for most of his life.
âWe really didnât have any turkeys north of Birmingham when I was a young boy,â Jones said. âThey had all been killed during the Depression. We hunted squirrels. We didnât even have any deer.â
Black and Brown Illinoisans in long-term care facilities died of COVID-19 at comparatively higher rates compared to white Illinoisians in the first few months of the pandemic.
That comes from a new study released last week by the state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services. HFS told a panel of lawmakers about the disproportionate number of deaths for minority nursing home residents a day after Governor J-B Pritzker signed an expansive law last week meant to address racial inequities in healthcare. […]
According to data collected by HFS between March and July of 2020, 60% of COVID-related deaths of nursing home residents on Medicaid occured at facilities where at least 10% of residents lived in rooms with three plus people. […]
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Black and Brown Illinoisans in long-term care facilities died of COVID-19 at comparatively higher rates compared to white Illinoisans in the first few months of the pandemic.
That comes from a new study released last week by the state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services. HFS told a panel of lawmakers about the disproportionate number of deaths for minority nursing home residents a day after Governor J-B Pritzker signed an expansive law last week meant to address racial inequities in healthcare.
In a presentation before a joint House committee hearing, HFS criticized the use of long-term care facilities that overcrowd bedrooms with three or more residents given the propensity for higher transmission.
UpdatedFri, Apr 30, 2021 at 2:53 pm CT
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Lawmakers expressed they were wary to give money to an industry that profits off of understaffing. (Shutterstock)
CHICAGO A disproportionate number of patients to die in overcrowded nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic were Black or Latino sometimes packed three or four to a room so that facilities could squeeze more funding out of the federal Medicaid insurance program, state officials said this week.
According to a report from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, also known as HFS, nursing homes with more than three residents to a room had a much higher number of preventable deaths than less crowded facilities about 60 percent of COVID-related deaths of nursing home residents between March and July 2020 occurred in homes where at least 10 percent of residents were in rooms with three or more people.