Owners, operators and staff at skilled nursing facilities have come to fear the dreaded “red hand” that CMS employs on its Care Compare website as a “consumer alert.” ...

Federal regulators have taken a “big jump” in their latest interpretation of third-party financial guarantees, putting limits on contractual language used by nursing homes for decades, a pair of ...

A judge has given the greenlight to Genesis HealthCare’s expedited plans to reorganize and sell its holdings, potentially to an already heavily invested private equity firm, over creditors’ objections ...

The Food and Drug Administration gave the greenlight to updated COVID-19 shots Wednesday, maintaining unrestricted access for all Americans 65 and older while significantly limiting eligibility for ...

Frailty risk in stroke survivors may be much higher than earlier reports suggest, according to new research using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the country’s ...

Older adults are more likely to join wellness programs when they receive targeted messages that balance positive and challenging aspects of aging, according to a new two-part study from the Mather ...

In less than three years, virtual care has saved River Garden Senior Services in Jacksonville, FL, nearly $3 million in ...

Las Vegas will host the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA) annual conference Sept. 11-13.

A group of surgeons has proposed measuring how often hospitals discharge post-surgical patients to nursing homes as a way to ...

Quashed by Congress, the federal rule mandating uniform staffing standards for all US nursing homes lives on in two separate courts.

A comprehensive fall prevention program integrated into primary healthcare systems significantly reduced falls among older ...

Two-thirds of nursing homes see Medicare Advantage plans deny or delay patients’ medically necessary post-acute care on a daily and weekly basis, according to a new  survey from the American Health ...