Nursing Homes Face Catastrophic Mix of Virus and Lax Oversight

In 2017, a flare-up of scabies in a Downey, California, nursing home persisted for more than six months and left at least seven patients covered in rashes from the skin-boring mites before staff members corralled the problem.

A year later, norovirus swept through a Lakeview, Oregon, facility after staff members failed to contain the gastrointestinal illness that eventually sickened at least 16 of its residents.

Last year, inspectors spotted a woman in a wheelchair using her bare feet to propel herself around the hallways of a Columbus, Texas, nursing home with a bandage taped over her heel, lightly covering an ...