Health Care Workers

Missouri and Illinois rank last in the nation in hours of care nursing home residents receive from workers each day. Advocates for nursing home residents say the Biden administration's plans to call for increased staffing could help residents.

Missouri and Kansas service providers are working long hours, waitlisting care and consolidating services as they grapple with a shortage of workers.

A federal judge in St. Louis on Monday temporarily barred the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from requiring health care workers in Missouri and nine other states to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Unions representing health care workers, including those who work in nursing homes, support a new federal rule that requires their members to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

A new report found the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated Illinois' rural health worker shortage.

Two health care workers saw the COVID-19 disease ravage St. Louis patients. But they needed time, information and a push before deciding to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Essential workers across food service, nursing homes and janitorial services say they’re risking their health and safety as they go into work every day during the coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force said that as hospitals in the St. Louis region near their capacity to treat coronavirus patients, doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are overworked and afraid.

Washington University researchers are launching an international study to test whether the drug chloroquine can prevent coronavirus infection.Chloroquine…

When the coronavirus began spreading in Missouri, Jasmine Whitfield remembers how scared her mother was. Cynthia Whitfield, 58, was a certified medication…