How to Use nursing home in a Sentence

nursing home

noun
  • And the nursing home is just blocks from the scene here.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 16 May 2022
  • Cameron's in a nursing home, and Ferris comes and breaks him out!
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The Prairie View nursing home in Sanborn, Iowa, is one of them.
    Tony Leys, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Athena still owns 14 nursing homes, down from 22 a year ago.
    Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
  • Yet many of them have been stuck at nursing homes for more than three years.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
  • Then, in 2021, Jeanne tracked Stephen down to a nursing home in Chicago and made amends.
    Nick Maslow, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Which states have the biggest gap in nursing home staffing compared to the new rules?
    Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • That’s why the woman had to be placed in a nursing home — her younger son was no longer around to help her.
    Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But a few nights later, on that same couch in the nursing home lobby, there was Scout.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Papa died just a few years prior to my stint at the nursing home.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The United States spends more than $90 billion a year on nursing home stays.
    Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • What’s the name of the nurse who works Saturday and Sunday nights at my mom’s nursing home?
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
  • There have been countless birthdays, from a 1-year-old to a 100-year-old at his nursing home.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The nursing home is in a 140-year-old monastery next to a chapel surrounded by new apartments.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The decision kept her from being confined to a nursing home for the rest of her life.
    Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Putting her in a nursing home and just visiting her once a month—that would break my heart.
    Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2023
  • So a lot of these donations came from big nursing homes.
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The town was down to a single hotel, a single store, a single nursing home.
    WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Justina Worrell, 47, works part time as a kitchen helper in an Ohio nursing home.
    David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Amy told the outlet that Clouse had worked at a nursing home and owned chickens, two goats, a pig and dogs, per the Detroit News.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • His death, in a nursing home, was confirmed by his nephew Brian Bereck.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • At the nursing home, every single window and most doors were blown out.
    USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The same is true for those in nursing homes and care facilities.
    WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The shots were later determined to have come from the parking lot of a nearby nursing home.
    Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • As more people in the United States age, the cost of nursing home care is growing along with demand.
    Fatima Hussein, ajc, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And homeless shelters or nursing homes that aren't equipped to take care of these patients won't take them.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Without home health aides in an area, seniors are more likely to live in a nursing home.
    Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • No foul play is suspected in connection to the death of a 71-year-old Florida grandfather who was found dead in a closet at a nursing home, according to an autopsy.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The process for absentee voting in Wisconsin nursing homes became a focus of false claims about election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
    Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024

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