Nursing homes in Kansas have enrolled in a penalty fund-backed program to equip direct caregivers with sector training.

Five years post-pandemic, nursing home conditions remain dire amid chronic underfunding and oversight failures. Advocates ...

Source: ProPublica’s Nursing Home Inspect, updated November 2024, uses data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Information on deficiencies comes from a home’s last three inspection ...

Helena Corbett has been called an inspiration by a consultant from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust ...

The Health & Human Services' (HHS) recent announcement to end more than 50 years of public involvement in rulemaking raises ...

The surgeon will attach the end of your colon to the stoma. Bowel movements will leave your body through it and collect in a special pouch that you’ll empty out. Your health care team will show ...

When you’re pregnant, there are certain skin-care ingredients that it’s advisable to avoid. That’s because they’re simply not safe to use during this period of your life, says Dr. Abigail ...

In the past decade, she had been living at the Belair Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in North Bellmore, where she passed away peacefully Monday morning. Girone passed away on Feb. 24 at the ...

Vulnerable people with intellectual disabilities felt unsafe in group care homes run by a Co Wicklow organisation where the State’s healthcare watchdog warned some practices could amount to ...

By Amanda Holpuch Frozen shakes sold to nursing homes, hospitals and other institutions ... 34 of those infected were in long-term care facilities or had been hospitalized before becoming sick ...

Medicare does not cover custodial care, including residency at a nursing home, but it typically covers skilled nursing facility care, hospice care, and some medically necessary in-home care services.

Analysis shows more than 4,000 nursing homes lost at least one star in Care Compare’s quality domain compared to previous data, which had remained the same since April 2024. The four measures ...