The Washington Post (4/2, Sacchetti, Swaine, 14.2M) reports, “A Washington state nursing home tied to at least 37 covid-19 deaths faces a fine of more than $611,000, federal inspectors said, and could also lose Medicare and Medicaid funding if it does not correct a slew of deficiencies that led to the country’s first major outbreak of the novel coronavirus.” In a letter to Life Care Center of Kirkland, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “wrote that the nursing home failed to report an outbreak of respiratory illness to local authorities for two weeks as required by law, gave inadequate care to its residents during the outbreak and failed to provide 24-hour emergency doctor services.” The inspectors said that if the nursing home.