Facilities that serve more residents with mental illness tend to have quality characteristics that differ substantially from other nursing homes, say investigators.
The role of a nurse practitioner in these settings is a hybrid of nursing consultant and a fee‐for‐service clinician, say researchers.
Older adults with hypothyroidism face elevated mortality risk … Long night’s sleep, long midday naps raise stroke risk … New quality measures introduced for older adults’ diabetes care … Deaths in nursing facilities, hospitals decline while those at home, hospice rise
Nursing facility residents with behavioral health disorders are more likely to be hospitalized than residents with dementia, say researchers.
A year after Hurricane Irma killed 12 nursing home residents, senior living facilities have been under pressure to have better emergency preparedness plans during the 2018 hurricane season.
Transactions involving nursing facilities totaled $900 million in the first quarter, according to Bill Kauffman, senior principal at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. Seniors housing and care deals amounted to $1.7 billion, he added, bringing the total across combined sectors to $2.6 billion. That’s down 5% from the previous quarter and…
Slightly more than half of the nation’s nursing facilities reported abuse or neglect allegations as required in 2012, a new report from the Office of Inspector General alleges. Such relatively low compliance indicates that more guidance and oversight is warranted, the report concludes.
Only about half of nursing facilities correctly reported abuse or neglect allegations in 2012, indicating that the government needs to provide more guidance and oversight, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General.
To best protect federal health programs, more action should be taken to improve nursing home quality, a new government report asserts.
Long-term care providers offering home- and community-based services will have to administer person-centered care to qualify for payments through Medicaid, under a final rule issued Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
