Building relationships and formal partnerships between long-term care providers and pharmacists is increasingly vital to ...

A new heat forecasting tool online could give older adults and their caregivers advanced notice of when the temperature is ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would exempt nursing homes from having registered nurse coverage for up ...

Residents of nursing homes largely aren’t up to date on their COVID-19 shots, and the uptake decline compared to earlier in ...

More than 80% of nursing homes do not meet the updated requirements in the final staffing mandate from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, according to new analysis from media outlet KFF.

As some advocate a federal bill allowing “essential caregivers” to visit nursing homes during emergencies one state takes the opposite stance ...

Raising the age of Medicare eligibility, among other changes to Medicare and Medicaid, could cause more deaths, according to a research article published April 22 in the Proceedings of the National ...

Long-term care facilities need to pay attention to the latest research on cleaning and disinfection in order to prevent residents from being infected with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) as well ...

Tragicomically, CMS asserts “this final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities” ...

As clinical people, most will associate “dumping syndrome” with the definition of a group of symptoms — such as diarrhea, nausea and feeling light-headed ...

Despite minor concessions in a staffing mandate issued Monday, many nursing home providers were shell-shocked by what they saw as federal regulators’ intractable stance on minimums.

Vice President Kamala Harris led a roundtable discussion that included local nursing home staff in La Crosse, WI, Monday — ...