A New Mexico nursing home will pay $75,000 to quash allegations that it allowed a supervisor to harass two employees and ...

Nursing home operators and patient advocates should be energized by new study results that show minimum staffing mandates increased staff levels without causing patient or financial harm, researchers ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

Characteristics of sarcopenic obesity (SO), including low calf circumference (CC), handgrip strength (HGS) increased  body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), were associated with an ...

He nailed the headline numbers. But what stuck with me after reading his story was something quieter, something bigger: a ...

After officially taking over operations at two more facilities Sunday, skilled nursing provider Journey has completed a ...

Long-term care operators are again calling on regulators to give them more control in accountable care organizations, a move they say could save Medicare $2 billion or more per year.

Federal regulators have thrown nursing homes in several states a short funding lifeline, but operators will still lose ...

In long-term care, few changes feel more consequential than altering how medications are administered. Medication passes are not just a task; they are ...

Heart attack death rates rose by 1.2% among adults younger than age 55 who were hospitalized between 2011 and 2022 with a first severe heart attack, according to a February study published in the ...

Feedback from clinicians and managers identified numerous barriers to providing care for dehydration among nursing home residents including limited training, absence of specific protocols and ...

Not long ago, I was sitting across from a nursing home leadership team as they stared at a quality measure report that didn’t make sense to them. “We’re ...