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Task force recommends state reduce reliance on nursing homes

N.J. must get tougher on nursing home operators that put seniors at risk, long-awaited report says

Nursing home IP program gets provider-led update

A nursing home infection control program has been updated amid competing facility priorities and staff shortages.

Brown researchers receive $4.9 million to study COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in older adults

Brown-based IMPACT Collaboratory expands massive effort to track COVID-19 vaccine effects

Brown-based IMPACT Collaboratory expands massive effort to track COVID-19 vaccine effects A $1.4 million federal grant will enable the research team to add customer data from Walgreens, doubling the scope of the largest monitoring system of safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccinations for elderly people. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife to partner with Walgreens to add customer data to a massive monitoring system of the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination for Medicare beneficiaries. The tracking system, established by the same team of researchers in February, was already the first big data effort to combine vaccination and pharmacy records with Medicare claims. Adding data from 13.2 million Walgreens customers to the information from more than 13 million CVS customers will effectively double the size of the securely monitored da