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State Roundup: Key COVID stats for reopen are flat, but deaths rise
Ocean City to reopen beach and boardwalk; nursing homes still await tests; Baltimore Sun wins Pulitzer for Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly’ scandal
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Hogan orders testing for all nursing home residents and staff
Newly established “bridge teams” will provide “emergency clinical staffing to nursing homes that are experiencing a crisis,” augmenting the assistance that strike teams are giving, the governor said.
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State Roundup: Hogan previews tiered reopening plan
Congress passes a “critical” economic aid package, and city leaders decide to move some homeless to hotels as outbreaks spread in shelters.
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State Roundup: Hogan has tighter benchmarks to reopen economy than the White House
Gov. Hogan’s benchmarks to re-open economy tighter than those set by White House
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Covid-19 outbreaks suspected at 2 Charles County nursing homes
One suspected outbreak is at The Charleston Senior Community in Waldorf and the other at Sagepoint Senior Living Services in LaPlata, which has acknowledged one case.
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State Roundup: Elections board flip-flops and OKs 3 in-person voting centers
Elections board reverses itself, clears way for three in-person voting centers
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Md. health group praises Hogan’s decision to send ‘strike teams’ to nursing homes
Del. Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore, Harford) also praised Hogan’s initiative.
Read MoreMedicare rate change worries nursing homes
A new rule cutting Medicare reimbursements for skilled nursing facilities may cost the state’s nursing homes $89 million this fiscal year. “It’s devastating,” said Isabella Firth, president of LifeSpan Network, the Columbia-based provider association with 300 member senior care facilities in the Mid-Atlantic. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the new rule, which reduces reimbursements by more than 11%, on July 29. It will go into effect Oct. 1.
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