Nursing Homes

Four people have died due to COVID-19 at an assisted living facility in Mercer County, West Virginia. Some staff and family members of residents refused to receive the vaccine. A pharmacy had offered the shots at the care center.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced the start Wednesday of a new vaccine rollout plan aimed at the state’s senior population called Save Our Wisdom, or SOW.

Kanawha County is the latest to advance in the state’s color-coded map for community coronavirus spread in counties.It moved into the orange zone from 9.7…

On this West Virginia Morning, we’ll hear from award-winning filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon, about her passion for shining a light on the resilience…

An executive order from West Virginia’s governor will take effect Tuesday morning, adding some flexibility for nursing home visitations as the state…

Gov. Jim Justice has once again revised a set of metrics that will guide school reopenings and, now, some operations at nursing homes. That change comes…

With recent deaths from the coronavirus in West Virginia concentrated within the state’s elderly population, Gov. Jim Justice says he is once again…

WVU Medicine’s two Eastern Panhandle hospitals have lifted the zero-visitation policy put in place to combat the coronavirus.Hospital inpatients and…

After three months of restrictions, nursing homes in the state are beginning to allow visitors again. Families are learning that the experience of reopening won't be the same for everyone.

Nursing homes, which have been closed to guests since mid-March because of the coronavirus, will soon be reopening to visitors.In his daily virtual press…