Waiving a 3-day stay rule in a new payment model could be the start of broader payment reform of inpatient stay requirements ...

DON turnover plays an outsize role in nursing home quality and should be better emphasized in government quality ratings, ...

Attendees of this year’s McKnight’s Tech Awards + Summit, slated for Sept. 16 and 17, will have the opportunity to earn multiple continuing education credits while learning from their peers and other ...

With worker satisfaction surging, operators are riding a relative “calm,” but experts warn major concerns are swirling just below the surface.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently released its annual recommendations for the use of influenza vaccines for the 2025-26 ...

I doubt I’ve ever walked the halls of a nursing home without turning introspective and inwardly musing, “What must it be like to be a resident?” Which is ...

Adding to a growing body of research about the related health benefits of diabetes weight-loss drugs, an August 31 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that semaglutide and ...

More than 180 nursing homes in Virginia filed suit Wednesday, hoping to force state officials to adopt a new rate-setting methodology that had been expected to boost rates starting July 1.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the biologics license application for a subcutaneous formulation of ...

LTC leaders have shaken off many of the vexing workplace effects of the pandemic and entered a new era embodied by optimism ...

The Ensign Group has agreed to pay nearly $48 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that state and federal prosecutors abandoned four years ago — and for which plaintiffs attorneys are ...

When I am called upon to assist the facility, and dig deeper than the surveyors to determine how to defend these nursing homes, I often find one general constant through it all: Lack of communication.