A federal policy incentivizing higher staffing models in nursing homes would lead to better patient health outcomes, ...

A Congressional advisory group on Thursday voted to recommend a 4% pay cut for skilled nursing providers next fiscal year, ...

Registration is open for the AAPACN 2026 Conference, being held March 17 – 20 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando.

As staffing challenges become the “new normal” for senior care facilities, the most successful ones will be those that ...

CMS is reducing pressure on state survey agencies to make up for time lost during a federal government shutdown last fall.

A survey of more than 300 home care respondents across the United States has identified several key trends shaping the ...

Less than two months after they put a lengthy compliance investigation behind them, PACS Group executives took to the stage ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

Skilled nursing facilities do not experience emergencies as isolated technical failures. They experience them as cascading events, where power, climate control, clinical systems and human ...

In the midst of funding cuts to Meals on Wheels and SNAP benefits, many Victoria, TX, residents were facing tough decisions. A lifeline for older adults on a fixed income, such benefits helped them ...

Patients with pre-existing high blood pressure are more likely to be susceptible to heart damage caused by anthracyclines, the most widely used chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment for more than 30 ...

Communication training sessions centered on serious illness conversations for clinicians could help improve home care outcomes for patients, according to a January feature published in Home Healthcare ...