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Letitia Stein joined the Philadelphia Inquirer as health and science editor in April 2022. Previously, she was a national investigative reporter for USA TODAY focusing on health care. As a 2021 Center for Health Journalism National Fellow, she led a team of reporters, data journalists, photographers and videographers that produced the project, "Dying for Care."
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The White House, National Academies and now some members of Congress have called for nursing home reforms. Rep. Bobby Rush says corporations must be held accountable for pandemic deaths.
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Regulators looking to focus on transparency, staffing and worst performers.
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A major new investigation details how nursing homes failed during COVID-19.
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A USA TODAY investigation has traced the casualties back to one nursing home chain, Trilogy Health Services, owned by a real estate venture with a new business plan for the cutthroat world of eldercare.
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Experts say you should break it down, beginning with deciding whether a nursing home is the right fit, or whether this is the right time.
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A seemingly simple question — how many nursing home residents have gotten sick and died — has often turned into a political minefield.
A USA TODAY investigation has traced a string of casualties back to one nursing home chain, Trilogy Health Services.
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Facilities housing just 1% of the population saw at least one in four of last year’s COVID-19 deaths. My reporting seeks deeper answers about what went wrong.