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 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is updating its nursing home surveyor guidance to emphasize more off-hours surveys, standardize survey team composition and add more examples of Immediate ...

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.

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

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

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

Despite the firestorm the article sparked among consumer groups Tuesday, The Times acknowledged it could provide “no evidence ...

Days after revealing them, regulators withdrew new coverage determinations for skin substitutes used to treat diabetic foot and venous leg ulcers.

A federal policy incentivizing higher staffing models in nursing homes would lead to better patient health outcomes, according to new research that looked at the impact of a single payment change in ...

Nursing home oversight is often discussed as if it functions the same way everywhere. The rules are federal. The survey process is standardized. Outcomes ...