The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations Thursday explored new worrisome findings regarding rate-setting and claims-settling practices in the long-term care insurance industry.

A new bill introduced in Congress this week would help small businesses, including independent nursing homes and other healthcare providers, form health insurance cooperatives to provide their employees with affordable health insurance.

While no one knows for certain what causes us to age, prevailing wisdom suggests it's a buildup of stresses and the cumulative effects of disease. The surprising results of a recent study, however, say otherwise.

Bed-rail entrapments continue to occur despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recognition of the problem. Nursing homes need to take action themselves to remove harmful rails from their inventories.

Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) this week touted a second possible stimulus package that would contain a temporary increase in Medicaid spending.

The American Health Care Association asked Congress to help improve the tracking of sex offenders and develop a definition of "sex offender" in an effort to improve residents' safety.

A bill authorizing more than $560 million in grants and loans to encourage the use of electronic health records passed through the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday.

Fewer than a quarter (23%) of all nursing homes have a plan for dealing with a massive flu outbreak, according to a new study. About 25% had a pandemic response as part of a broader overall disaster plan.

A set of "simple" and "workable" non-pharmacological interventions that staff members could easily implement may be within nursing home operators' grasp for battling a pandemic flu outbreak, researchers say.

Centre Partners, a private equity firm with offices on the East and West coasts, says that it has completed its purchase of Covenant Care, which runs 43 skilled-nursing facilities and residential-care facilities in seven states. Terms of the previously announced purchase were not disclosed.