The country's largest chain of senior homes has an algorithm for how many staff each home can hire, even when workers say they're dangerously understaffed. Doug MacMillan & Christopher Rowland's latest installment in our investigation of the assisted living industry: washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Brookdale, the nation's leading operator of assisted living homes, uses an algorithm to set staffing levels at facilities. Managers have warned the system leaves senior homes dangerously short-staffed. Latest in our Memory Inc series: wapo.st/3voaVMU w/ Christopher Rowland

Algorithms are guiding senior home staffing. Managers say care is suffering. wapo.st/3voaVMU our latest #assistedliving story, with Doug MacMillan

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Thursday’s hearing came less than a week after the latest fatality reported to The Post.

Senators challenge assisted living industry over wandering deaths, poor care wapo.st/47PySJO

Impact: Senator Bob Casey calls Post findings 'horrific' & 'violation of trust' - Senate to examine walkaway deaths in assisted-living facilities wapo.st/3ShmYnA

Impact of our December stories on dangerously poor dementia care: Senate to examine walkaway deaths in assisted living facilities wapo.st/3ShmYnA

A vital The Washington Post editorial on dangerous neglect in assisted living, based on our findings about deadly walkaway deaths in assisted living.

The dementia crisis is here. Better training can’t wait. wapo.st/3NA11NS

One day, he was safe in a nursing home. The next, he was homeless. #longtermcare #evictions #nursinghomes #comics wapo.st/3Nx3Nne

After seeing video of a 97 yo woman freezing to death while banging on the locked doors of her upscale assisted living home, I needed to understand why no one came to help. What Christopher Rowland and I found is troubling: A $34B industry rampant with neglect
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Every day in America an older person with #dementia gets outside of #assistedliving , nearly 100 times with deadly results wapo.st/3TtuwVn Honored to work with talented Post team Todd C. Frankel Yeganeh Torbati is on book leave in 2024 Julie Z. Weil Doug MacMillan Peter Whoriskey Steven Rich

As discussed in this Christopher Rowland The Washington Post article, we think an important part this story is: residents need timely access to healthcare professionals who can prescribe tx when appropriate & ensuring providers are up to date on tx guidelines
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Long-term care is a ‘wasteland of inattention.’ Christopher Rowland is helping change that. By Trudy Lieberman, USC Center for Health Journalism centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/insig… Center for Health Journalism

Paxlovid is underused at nursing homes, study says washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

Faiz Siddiqui Shane Harris Samuel Oakford Doug MacMillan Caroline Kitchener FrancesSteadSellers Michael Lee Chris Mooney Craig Whitlock FOIA Nate📄 Steven Rich John Woodrow Cox carolyn johnson Christopher Rowland The Post is built around deep reporting on government policy, and no one does it better than jeffstein, like this analysis that Medicare Part A (hospitals, nursing facilities, home health) will be depleted in 5 years washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023…

Thanks for sharing Daniel Gilbert !

Hello Catherine Hawes this is Chris Rowland at the WaPo. Can you send me a direct message? I'm working on long-term-care stories and would like to connect with you about your work

“It’s just a catastrophe. This is the fastest-growing group of people who are homeless.”

Nearly a quarter of a million people 55 or older are estimated by the government to have been homeless in the United States during at least part of 2019. wapo.st/41Xhgce

Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can’t care for them washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

I guess talking to journalists is no longer part of being president. Not exactly the transparency Biden pledged would change from Trump