Nursing homes with a unionized workforce have higher compliance rates with federal safety laws making for safer environments in “one of the most dangerous workplaces in the country,” according to new ...

Falls become increasingly dangerous as we age. Among those 65 and older, falls cause around 3 million emergency room visits annually and $50 billion in medical costs. Some fall risk factors are ...

The Biden administration announced plans Friday to toughen oversight of the nation's poorest-performing nursing homes with escalating fines and terminating federal funding for the homes that fail to ...

Some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety This is a KFF Health News story. In early 2020, with reports of COVID-19 outbreaks making dire headlines, Trever Schapers worried ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The federal government is taking extreme and rare action against a Virginia nursing home for failures to meet health and safety standards. According to federal records, the ...

Drinking alcohol is a valued pastime for some long-term care residents, but purposeful policies can keep the practice from becoming a moral, logistical and legal quagmire for facility operators, ...

(TNS) - Feb. 18—A year into the pandemic, California's workplace safety watchdog doesn't know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of ...

When bus driver Garrett Wright clocked in for work well before sunrise Jan. 8, his community was on fire. His usual route ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken action against a care home after it was found to be "unsafe". Following an ...

Update: The Biden administration released its recommendation on nursing home staffing ratios after this story published on Sept. 1. The proposed rule would require each resident get 33 minutes of care ...

New York's strategy for treating nursing home patients during the early months of COVID-19 is among the most debated public health issues to emerge from the pandemic. State Health Department ...

Out of the 150 lowest-rated nursing homes in New York, the Finger Lakes had 13 and the Hudson Valley had 21. A total of 150 nursing homes in New York received the lowest overall rating in the latest ...