Thirty-five years ago, as a newly minted geriatrician, I remember observing the impact of a survey on nursing home staff.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will offer nursing students up to $40,000 in tuition reimbursement or $10,000 outright to work for a nursing home or state survey agency, the agency said ...
Arizona long-term care providers are proposing a bill to increase the state’s Medicaid reimbursement rate, an urgent move ...
Illinois state providers say that a proposed bill that would allow residents to sue nursing homes for retaliation adds ...
Vaccination in nursing homes led to a decrease in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 in the two years that followed the height of the pandemic, according to a report published Tuesday in ...
A study seems to establish a link between oral herpes virus, which causes mouth cold sores, and Alzheimer’s disease. The study was published in Cell Reports on Jan. 2.
Despite Minnesota nursing homes receiving extra funding through a critical access nursing facility program, that perk is set to expire in June ...
A new study assessed the relationship between leisure activity and depression in older adults. Though the two are not linked, ...
A new study measured use of feeding tubes in Canadian nursing home residents, finding similar trends to those in the United ...
A brief version of the traditional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in primary care and community health settings could ...
The number of providers reporting that staffing levels returned to pre-pandemic norms — or will this year — jumped in the ...
States should increase the personal needs allowances provided to nursing home residents whose stays are covered by Medicaid.