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The Chapin Home has survived two pandemics, two world wars, the Great Depression and other economic calamities to serve the poor and ailing of New York City across three centuries.

Upcoming changes to Five-Star rating methodology will require long-term care providers to overhaul several key daily processes related to staffing and quality measure reporting, an informatics specialist...

Many US skilled nursing facilities currently meet some provisions of the new federal staffing rule at least some of the time, but only 160 — slightly more than 1% — consistently meet all requirements,...

Kristen Duell wasn’t satisfied with a successful career that brought her into the C-suite of two healthcare companies.

When he was studying accounting, Phillip Hill probably never thought his career would include a groundbreaking relationship with Eli Lilly. An administrator for Principle Long Term Care, he partnered with...

FDA approves first new UTI treatment in two decades … MACs propose coverage of some skin substitute grafts for diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers … This state is inching closer to universal...

Skilled nursing providers will not have to go through a stand-alone application process to be exempted from provisions of a new federal staffing mandate, an official with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

A Senate bill introduced Wednesday would count days spent under ‘observation status’ in a hospital toward Medicare’s three-day qualifying stay requirement.

Nursing homes in disadvantaged neighborhoods are more likely to rely on antipsychotics, especially when understaffed, compared to those in more affluent areas, according to a new study in Jama Network...

Vassar T. Byrd has been a jack of all trades — an economist, a research analyst, a marketing and sales director, and now CEO of the Kendal Corporation.