New York City public health officials are moving patients suffering from COVID-19 into beds within a nursing home on Roosevelt Island that cares for hundreds of residents with a wide range of severe...

At least 9 facilities serving as long-term care or nursing homes locally have documented coronavirus outbreaks as of Monday. 

New York and New Jersey want nursing homes to accept recovering hospital patients, regardless of their COVID-19 status, to free up space in hospitals. What's to keep the virus from spreading?

Hospitals can free up much needed beds by moving COVID-19 patients to designated nursing facilities. But it needs to be done very carefully.

State officials are pressing ahead with a plan to designate nursing homes across the state as treatment centers for recovering COVID-19 patients despite infection outbreaks at the first three homes...

The move, requiring admission of new or returning residents, comes as New Jersey nursing homes have been hit hard by coronavirus.

Nearly every long-term care facility in the state has reported at least one case of the coronavirus, with 90 percent of New Jersey’s 375 centers reporting a confirmed case