nursing homes

A major report says American nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, and that facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced.

President Joe Biden is launching a major overhaul of nursing home quality in his State of the Union speech

Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.

Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots amid a spike in COVID-19 cases among staffers and a concerning lag in booster vaccination for residents and staff

It has been 19 months since the discovery of 17 bodies in a tiny morgue at the Andover Subacute II nursing home in Sussex County, New Jersey, in April 2020.

The government is telling nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing many remaining pandemic restrictions while urging residents, families and facility staff to keep their guard up against outbreaks

Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there was no guarantee that’s how the money would be spent. Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York are taking unprecedented steps to ensure they get what they pay for, after the devastating impact of COVID-19 exposed problems with staffing and...

While about 25% of retirees will need significant long-term care, many more will require either minimal support or none at all.

Louisiana health officials are revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where residents died after Hurricane Ida amid conditions deemed squalid and unsafe.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to hike taxes on Tuesday to fund health care and reforms to the country’s social-care system.

Nursing homes in Maryland are seeing another rise in coronavirus cases

Senior Democratic senators are introducing legislation that responds to the ravages of COVID-19 in nursing homes

The nation’s largest nursing home operator told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response

Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated

Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes

Nursing homes across the country are still reporting scattered COVID-19 outbreaks and COVID-associated deaths, albeit at much smaller rates than during the height of the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic created “crisis”-level worker shortages at many U.S. long-term care facilities and nursing homes, as workers were sidelined by illness, quarantine or childcare challenges. But a review by the News4 I-Team found it also exposed long-term staffing shortages that many experts say are likely to remain even after the pandemic subsides.

The coronavirus pandemic devastated so many parts of our community but was especially hard for those living and working in long-term care facilities. Health care workers in nursing homes were pushed to the max as COVID-19 spread. But while death rates from the virus in nursing homes have declined, an investigation by Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team found another...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced steps to encourage nursing home residents and staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine