As many smaller providers have exited the market in recent years, some of the nation’s largest nursing homes chains have benefited by picking up buildings and beds that give them entry  into critical ...

CMS appears to have made even more changes to its antipsychotic quality measure without advance notice, experts say. One consequence could be lower star ratings of which providers are unaware.

More than 83% of older adults in the “early transition period”, or the the initial two to four weeks after transitioning from home to a nursing home, exhibited negative attitudes towards aging, ...

Older adults who received cognitive speed training, plus booster sessions one and three years later, were 25% less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the ...

An updated list of the nation’s largest nursing home chains reveals a new order — literally and operationally — among today’s top providers, many of whom embrace robust local leadership models and ...

With length-of-stay shrinking and appeals netting just an average of four days more skilled nursing care, researchers say it’s time for providers to focus on function, transitions and better ...

If you run a long-term care facility these days, you know the frustration: working hard and delivering excellent care, yet still being lumped in with the “bad apples” who give the field a bad name.

A Virginia lawmaker has proposed cutting funding to nursing homes that pay “excessive” rents to landlords, including real ...

While nursing homes added nearly 41,000 jobs last year, they still remain the only healthcare sector not to have fully ...

Provider groups are calling on CMS to adopt new rules that hold MA plans more accountable for “egregious” denials while also ...

Community-dwelling older adults with cognitive frailty (CF) demonstrated an increased risk of a transition into an institutional care setting (TIC), according to a February study published in the ...