The proposed rule required a registered nurse on-site at all times. It also stipulated a minimum of 3.48 hours of direct care ...

Nursing homes with a unionized workforce have higher compliance rates with federal safety laws making for safer environments in “one of the most dangerous workplaces in the country,” according to new ...

Michael Wasserman, Newbury Park, California. R. Tamara Konetzka ([email protected]), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Nursing home residents are vulnerable to disproportionate harm during ...

Most U.S. nursing homes will need to add staffing under a federal rule announced Monday that for the first time sets minimum staffing ratios nationwide for homes that care for elderly and disabled ...

The Biden administration announced plans Friday to toughen oversight of the nation's poorest-performing nursing homes with escalating fines and terminating federal funding for the homes that fail to ...

Falls become increasingly dangerous as we age. Among those 65 and older, falls cause around 3 million emergency room visits annually and $50 billion in medical costs. Some fall risk factors are ...

CalMatters recently reported on a cluster of lawsuits against nursing homes owned by Los Angeles entrepreneur Shlomo Rechnitz. Here are takeaways from our special report.

Almost a quarter of all nursing homes in New York received low ratings for their overall safety and quality of care, data released by a patient advocacy group shows. Approximately 135 of the state’s ...

Dawnielle Robinson-Walker is an observant and witty word nerd from Kansas City, Missouri. She’s served as an English instructor and written for Hallmark and various online health and women’s ...

A Brentwood nursing home resident with dementia found drinking from a brown bottle of liquid hair coloring dye. A cognitively impaired Hempstead nursing home resident who wandered out of his facility ...