The COVID-19 pandemic and industrywide staffing shortages have led to many nurses and other clinical staff being thrust prematurely into nurse leadership positions.

Every so often, a court ruling comes along that feels tailor-made for long-term care operators. Last week, the Ninth Circuit ...

Survey outcomes ripple through every level of a skilled nursing facility. Citations bring fines and threats to Medicare ...

For many nursing homes denied payment by Medicare contractors, the rationale given comes down to insufficient or missing documentation.

As states begin to figure out the dollars and cents of a new federal rural health fund, skilled nursing and other post-acute ...

From tackling a scabies outbreak in a nursing home to scheduling shifts and helping write plans of correction that satisfy regulators, a range of aging services providers are eagerly already putting ...

US nursing homes will face more than 660,000 nursing aide job openings through 2034, almost double what will be needed across ...

An increasing number of United States adults, especially those under age 40, are experiencing cognitive difficulties, or ...

The Virginia Health Care Association has asked the federal government to step in with more immediate help with the survey ...

Nearly two years after federal audits of schizophrenia diagnoses began, most skilled nursing targets are still being accused ...

With skilled nursing improper payment rates more than double the overall rate for Medicare, nursing homes must remain ...

Older adults who ate their meals, especially breakfast, later tended to experience poorer health outcomes. That is according to a September study published in Communications Medicine.