Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.
The breakfast tray on the side table had barely been touched. The nursing home resident was an elderly woman with multiple co-morbidities. She had slipped down from her pillow and was in a sideways ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has rolled out its first major change to the SNF Medicare Cost Report in ...
Two prominent Democrats are pressing UnitedHealth Group over reports that the company is engaging in cost-cutting policies that put nursing home patients at risk. Sens. Ron Wyden, of Oregon, and ...
Health professionals in Hartford, Conn., have created a program for improving patient safety in nursing homes through reduction of human error, according to a report from The Courant. The program is ...
Recommendations have been presented for infection prevention and control (IPC) in the context of nursing homes.
Another state has decided to regulate workplace violence in nursing homes and other healthcare facilities amid a delay in the development of federal rules.
NYU Langone Health is expanding its Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan to include a team for rehabilitative care — a change ...