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Norwegians hand care homes to the state

Nordic care groups Unicare and Norlandia are handing their for-profit nursing homes in Norway to not-for-profits or municipalities because the latter refuses to work with the private sector.
April 30, 2020

Mass testing in Belgian nursing homes

Belgium, where health ministry figures show 53% of the country's 7,594 COVID-19 deaths have occurred in care homes is mass-testing all residents and has already completed over 100,000 tests. We are told that there are some surprising results. The aim is to enable homes to build COVID-free operations so that they can start replenishing.
April 30, 2020

Massive underreporting of care home deaths

Anecdotally, care homes across Europe are 'the new epicentre' of the coronavirus but most states still don't have any grasp on how much of the sector is infected. HBI collates reports to assess what the real impact of the coronavirus is across Western Europe. It suggests that rates could be under-reported by 80%.
April 23, 2020

Brazil looking to learn from Europe’s COVID care home crisis

Care homes in Brazil are looking to avoid the mistakes made in Europe, and are lobbying government to ensure there are medical facilities available for elderly patients showing signs of COVID-19. If isolation within care homes in Europe didn't work, and it clearly hasn't, it will be impossible in Brazil they say.
April 16, 2020

Exclusive prediction: Pandemic reaching turning point in Europe?

An exclusive analysis by Chinese insurance giant Ping An suggests COVID-19 cases could reach a turning point in the next few days, hitting the peak of new confirmed cases by later this week / early April,  with that figure set to fall thereafter.
March 30, 2020

Interview: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, claims to be the largest rehabilitation hospital in the USA, and works with groups from Bulgaria to UAE. HBI talk to Kelly Cox Watkins, Vice President, Market Development and Barry Fleischer, Executive Director, Advisory Services, about how to build a successful rehabilitation service, their groups' focus on patient ability, not adapting to disability and what that means in practice, and about its advisory work.
March 16, 2020

COVID-19: Care sector confronts crisis, hospitals hit hard

In the second of our two-part deep dive into how COVID-19 is hitting healthcare markets across EMEA, we ask how hospitals are coping with spiralling staff sickness and a flood of patients, and whether the care and dialysis sectors can stay afloat given the risk the virus poses to their most vulnerable patients.
March 12, 2020

Germany to reform financing of long-term care

Germany is on the brink of reforming the financing of long-term care insurance (LTC) which funds elderly care. The industrious Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn could produce a draft law by the summer, and private insurers are proposing revolutionary ways of bringing fresh capital to the system.
March 12, 2020
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