“How Nursing Homes Hide Their Most Serious Lapses” (front page, Dec. 10) exposes conditions in nursing homes, issues with their regulation and the underlying problems with the care of our seniors. The ...

Healthcare workers at nursing homes face a major challenge when helping older adults to maintain their oral hygiene. This has been shown in a study conducted at the University of Gothenburg, which ...

Dr. Kenneth Scott is CEO and founder of SilverSage Management Services, providing physicians and consulting to the long-term care industry. In his State of the Union Address last year, President Biden ...

A state-level program to improve the quality of care and lower avoidable hospitalizations in Missouri nursing homes has worked so well that policymakers are pointing to it as a possible national ...

In support of the administration's plan to improve the nation's nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued an informational bulletin detailing actions that states can ...

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Americans gave nursing homes a D+ for quality of care in a recent Gallup/West Health poll and most said they’d be uncomfortable being ...

From staffing shortages to the quality of care, the COVID pandemic magnified challenges in nursing homes. But studies show these issues existed long before COVID-19. Now, lawmakers are taking ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. More help could be on the way for nursing ...