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Five years after COVID-19 swept through nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the United States, Gray Panthers NYC gathered advocates, family members, researchers, clergy, and long-term care leaders for a powerful conversation: A Remembrance: The COVID Tragedy Five Years Later. The webinar served as both a memorial and a call to action. It revisited the 2021 Gray Panthers documentary Honoring Nursing Home Lives Lost, while asking an urgent question: Have we learn

This month’s Transformation Tuesday made one thing unmistakably clear: isolation is not a “visitor policy” issue—it’s a human rights issue. The Essential Caregivers Act is about ensuring that no resident in a nursing home or other Medicare/Medicaid-certified long-term care setting can be cut off from the person who knows them, steadies them, advocates for them, and helps them survive— even during emergencies. 1) The cost of separation is real—and it compounds fast Mary Danie