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Veterans homes adapt as pandemic takes toll

By BELINDA ROBINSON in New York | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-08-03 09:13 Share CLOSE The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a disproportionate fatality rate in some veterans homes compared with other nursing homes, leading the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to move to ensure more lives aren t lost to the Delta variant of the coronavirus. The VA runs more than 100 nursing homes, or community living centers (CLC) in every state. A CLC is solely funded and managed by the VA. They cater to 33,000 American veterans, who mostly served during World War II. But with more than 30,000 beds and about 133 homes, it is the state veterans home program that is the largest provider of long-term care to veterans, the VA said.

Republicans Demand Promised Documents, Renew Call For Criminal Probe In Deadly Vets' Home COVID Outbreak

Three months after an investigation into the COVID outbreak that killed 36 residents at the state-run veterans’ home in LaSalle found the facility’s management was “ineffective, reactive and…chaotic” responding to the virus’ spread, Republicans in the Illinois House are once again agitating for more information from Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration. GOP members are also renewing their call for Attorney General Kwame Raoul to open a criminal probe into the fatal outbreak, which infected nearly all the residents at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home last fall, killing more than a quarter of the facility’s population, and spreading to more than 100 staff members.

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