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The Trouble with Nursing Homes From the almshouse to the nursing home, has long-term care for seniors been destined to fail?
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Three were taken from people who died in the hospital that served the city’s almshouse.
—Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Working with Hrdlicka, the doctors — often prominent members of D.C. society — took organs from Black people, children and people at institutions such as the city’s almshouse.
—Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
There are no more of them in the almshouses than of white people.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Three were taken from people who died in the hospital that served the city’s almshouse.
—Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Working with Hrdlicka, the doctors — often prominent members of D.C. society — took organs from Black people, children and people at institutions such as the city’s almshouse.
—Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
There are no more of them in the almshouses than of white people.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
See All Example Sentences for almshouse
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“Almshouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almshouse. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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