November 01, 2017

A program meant to improve communication among nursing home staff didn’t help reduce falls in facilities, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed.

Instead of building mass by stringing together operators with national reach, skilled nursing operators and owners should instead concentrate on finding smaller, nimble partners.

It’s your job to think about the future, so we definitely need to talk about drones in long-term care. Not the one who delivered that boring 100-slide PowerPoint at your last facility all-staff....

Older people who take sleep medications for insomnia may be increasing their risk of falls, according to new research from Penn State investigators.

An executive at Centers Health Care approached Gayle Kirschenbaum with an idea: Create a mini-horse therapy program in the company’s long-term care facilities.

The residents at Rosewood, a life plan community in Bakersfield, CA, break the stereotype that older adults aren’t interested in technology — and they do it with an “incredible appetite”...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hoping that providers can add to their success when it comes to further lowering the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes.

Whether you’re Republican, Democrat or independent, you might do well to listen to Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker.

Heart failure patients whose conditions are monitored using a telemanagement system may be less likely to be readmitted to the hospital from a post-acute care facility, according to the results of a recent...

Despite a push from the post-acute care industry to delay implementation of Phase 2 requirements of participation guidelines under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, providers at press time...