If nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Florida cannot check on coronavirus-positive residents three times a day, hold them in a secluded section of the building, and check asymptomatic residents every eight hours, they’re now required to transfer residents to other facilities who can. This comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to loosen restrictions on business and travel in…

Florida is not only miles ahead of most other states when it comes to managing the threat to nursing homes and assisted living facilities from coronavirus, but also miles ahead of other states when…

Governor Ron DeSantis debuted the state's "first ever" mobile testing facility to be used at longterm care and assisted living facilities at a press conference on Wednesday.

With nursing homes and assisted-living facilities among the most-vulnerable places during the coronavirus pandemic, industry officials called Wednesday for the federal government to set up an “emergency response fund” and for government agencies to provide more help with testing for the disease.

CUTLER BAY, FLA. (WSVN) - The owner of an assisted living facility in Cutler Bay said he is determined to do everything he can to...