Assisted living residents and staff members are exposed to elevated levels of compounds from disinfecting and antibacterial products that raise potential health concerns, according to the results of a ...

The life expectancy for Americans increased to 79 years in 2024 from 78.4 in 2023, according to a January data brief published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is updating its nursing home surveyor guidance to emphasize more off-hours ...

Immigration policies that would allow more foreign-born workers into the US and greater infusions of cash need to be pillars of any plans to build the nursing home workforce back to prepandemic levels ...

Provider groups are calling on CMS to adopt new rules that hold MA plans more accountable for “egregious” denials while also helping to ensure the future success of the only such plans nursing homes ...

Department leaders in long-term care organizations often find themselves in a balancing act. They’re responsible for leading their teams while also being ...

A Pennsylvania nursing home that employed a nurse convicted of murdering three patients and plotting to kill 19 others says its insurance carrier is trying to skip out on as much as $2.5 million in ...

While nursing homes added nearly 41,000 jobs last year, they still remain the only healthcare sector not to have fully ...

A new Oklahoma executive order on Medicare Advantage may go further than any other state initiative to rein in practices largely seen as unfavorable to both beneficiaries and providers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is changing how states select candidates for the Special Focus Facility Program ...

A federal judge Thursday declined to allow the nation's top federal bankruptcy overseer to intervene in the Genesis ...

Older adults with more than two geriatric syndromes, unique health conditions among elderly patients that are multifactorial ...