Discrimination

Nursing home worker fired over inability to lift heavy objects: federal suit … After securing historic Medicaid increase last year, Pennsylvania providers underwhelmed with flat rate for 2024 … County...

In this moment, nursing homes and the entire senior care continuum owe it to all of their residents to say: Hate has no home here, but you do.

This summer, the US Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin,...

Q: What is a skilled nursing facility to do when a resident doesn’t want to be cared for by a person of another race?

Ahead of Friday’s SNF TNA job-loss deadline, AHCA/NCAL urges CMS to re-issue blanket waiver … Study examines how LTC facility staff understand discrimination by residents and why staff fail to report...

More looks at private equity effects on SNF…Facility sued for discrimination after firing unvaccinated employees…$15 an hour in jeapordy for Fla. long-term care workers…CDC updates National Healthcare...

A federal push to have skilled nursing providers care for more patients with substance use and opioid use disorders faces major systemic hurdles, researchers reported this week.

Experiences of discrimination in healthcare leave sexual and gender minority adults in doubt that their preferences will be considered in end-of-life care, investigators report.

Four caregivers have settled a nearly 3-year-old class action race discrimination lawsuit against a now-shuttered New Jersey nursing home plagued by a host of problems, including COVID-19 outbreaks and...

Legal experts are warning nursing home leaders that inappropriate conversations with employees about disabilities, medical conditions or their general health can be costly, after a federal court allowed...