Michigan is not undercounting pandemic-related nursing home deaths, but COVID-19 deaths at smaller long-term care facilities might have slipped through the cracks, the leader of the state's health ...

No nursing homes were the subject of more complaints from April 1, 2020, through May 31, 2020, in Michigan than the Rivergate complex in Riverview and the Villa at Parkridge in Ypsilanti.

He seemed to be pointing to Michigan’s policy of allowing nursing homes to accept COVID-19-positive residents. An editorial by the Detroit News published in early August made a similar claim.

Through Aug. 19, 271 of Michigan’s 442 nursing homes (61%) had at least one COVID-19 resident case, and 209 (47%) had at least one COVID-19 resident death.

About 32% of Michigan's 6,781 COVID-19 deaths have been nursing home residents, according to state data.

As it has in nursing homes across Michigan and the U.S., COVID-19 spread inside Regency at Lansing West, where the 100-year-old has lived for three years, her son Jerry Stoecker said.

In Michigan, nursing homes report an average of 82% of residents are vaccinated against COVID-19. In contrast, on average, less than 53% of current facility staff have been immunized against the ...

Nineteen residents at the Villages of Lapeer Nursing and Rehabilitation, an 87-bed facility, have died of COVID-19, according to data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

May 11, 2023 02:10 PM Michigan bill would set nurse staffing ratios in hospitals Mark Sanchez, Crain's Grand Rapids Business Reprints Courtesy photo ...

We’re suing the state of Michigan to release information regarding Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order that funneled nursing home residents hospitalized with COVID-19 back into nursing ...