New Jersey

Admissions have been halted at a skilled nursing facility that was part of one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks as state officials raise major concerns about a new round of infection and deaths...

Two veterans nursing homes in New Jersey that employees described as “pure hell” and “a battlefield” violated residents’ Constitutional rights, federal officials said in a damning report. 

A New Jersey veterans home can begin admitting new residents after getting its infection control protocols in line with federal standards, although an industry observer cautioned that some restrictions...

 Legislation proposed to protect seniors’ financial assets against bad actors connected with nursing homes would actually punish some vulnerable seniors, says a leading long-term care advocate in New...

A New Jersey company pressured nursing home staff to refer ineligible patients to hospice care, exaggerating their conditions and defrauding the government in the process, a federal whistleblower lawsuit...

Closed NJ nursing home stayed open way too long, some claim … Many clinicians wary of using telehealth with older patients … What South Dakota providers think of governor’s promised reimbursement...

The first bill of its kind in the US would mandate that employers pay temporary workers, on average, as much as regular, direct-hire employees who do the same or similar work. The temp workers, who include...

Nursing home and other healthcare provider advocates are not pleased with a new New Jersey law that preserves employment for four months for workers whose facilities change ownership. Its unintended consequences...

The debut of the most recent new state dashboard shows the lengths states are going to in order to increase transparency into nursing home quality and operations.

Class action lawsuit against NY nursing home for patient deaths … NJ veteran’s nursing home accused of putting residents in immediate jeopardy … Study finds disparities in LTC patients’ access...