Health Care Workers

The St. Louis City Senior Fund voted unanimously Tuesday to allocate the funds for some nursing home residents who were displaced a week ago when the facility suddenly closed and their belongings were stolen.

After Northview Village administrators notified employees at the north Kingshighway facility Friday they would not be paid, management shuttled approximately 170 residents to new homes. Employees still have not received their paychecks, and some families are trying to track down their loved ones.

Missouri lost 6,000 workers across nursing and residential care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, and the state ranks 51st in hours of care nursing home residents receive from nurses. Experts and advocates say inadequate staffing endangers residents.

Missouri and Illinois rank last in the nation in hours of care nursing home residents receive from workers each day. Advocates for nursing home residents say the Biden administration's plans to call for increased staffing could help residents.

Missouri and Kansas service providers are working long hours, waitlisting care and consolidating services as they grapple with a shortage of workers.

A federal judge in St. Louis on Monday temporarily barred the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from requiring health care workers in Missouri and nine other states to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Unions representing health care workers, including those who work in nursing homes, support a new federal rule that requires their members to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

A new report found the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated Illinois' rural health worker shortage.

Two health care workers saw the COVID-19 disease ravage St. Louis patients. But they needed time, information and a push before deciding to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Essential workers across food service, nursing homes and janitorial services say they’re risking their health and safety as they go into work every day during the coronavirus pandemic.