Under the new rule, a registered nurse must be on-site at all times. Nursing homes that accept Medicaid and Medicare must adhere to new federally required staffing levels in order to keep receiving ...

The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths. While ...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the first rule to set minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes and require that a certain portion of the taxpayer dollars ...

Incentivizing high nursing home staffing levels in the U.S. could result in 6,142 fewer hospitalizations each year, according to a study published Jan. 16 in JAMA Health Forum.  The study was ...

Nursing homes will be required to have minimum levels of front-line caregivers for the first time or face financial penalties under a new requirement the Biden administration announced Monday. The ...

Rachel M. Werner ([email protected]) is the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, and executive ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A group of nonprofit advocacy organizations is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit that challenges new, ...

People who turned 65 in 2020 have a 70% chance of needing long-term care in their remaining years, according to the Administration of Community Living. For many, that will mean home health care. For ...

For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job ...

The Biden administration on Friday proposed standards requiring nationwide nursing homes to meet certain minimum staffing levels, a move it said would address concerns over the outsized impact of ...