January 01, 2014

Charges from whistleblowers have led to a $48 million settlement between operator The Ensign Group and the U.S. Department of Justice. The settlement was one of the largest of its kind, according to U.S....

Nursing homes should adopt evidence-based approaches to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, but significantly more research is needed to support this goal, a professor of geriatric medicine said in...

NEW JERSEY – Untold amounts of money have been pilfered from nursing home residents’ funds by those entrusted to protect them, and little government oversight exists to prevent it. This is...

The nursing and maintenance departments are feuding over the water temperature. What should it be in a skilled care unit?

It could have been fate that led Leonard Russ to healthcare. No one will really know. But what it wasn’t was expected.

» Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) has introduced legislation that aims to cut federal outlays by increasing the use of health technology in federal programs. Under the proposal, a 19-member commission would...

A small Belgian study of people with dementia on low-dose antipsychotics found that abrupt stoppage of the medication, rather than tapering, is a possible solution. Eighty-five percent of 40 patients who...

Arbutus Park Retirement Community does not just deck the halls for the holiday season. It lays down rails.

The nation’s largest not-for-profit long-term care providers have implemented electronic health records, but there is still much room for growth when it comes to the sharing of digital data, according...

Five neurorehabilitation treatments for those recovering from stroke were highlighted in a December Neurology Clinical Practice report.