A nursing home patient’s diagnosis is not the best predictor of whether the patient will be transferred to a hospital, according to a study published in Innovation in Aging. Researchers reviewed 1,931 ...

Pizza. Coloring books. Goody bags. They could be activities at a 5-year-old’s birthday party. But they’re not: These are many employers’ attempts to lift the morale of nurses on the frontlines of ...

Hospitals are struggling with long emergency room (ER) wait times, capacity issues, and staffing shortages. A growing number of patients with cellulitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A local nursing facility is the center of a homicide investigation. Arbors at Oregon is accused of medically neglecting a patient for months. “In her golden years at the twilight ...

"Safe, high-quality care is essential, but rigid, one-size-fits-all mandates fail patients," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

'Mandated ratios don't address systemic problems or the changes in the healthcare delivery system,' she says. As a handful of state legislatures have enacted or are considering mandating ...

Facing increased fiscal and liability pressures, more US nursing homes are initiating involuntary patient discharges.

A new study revealed that of the Medicaid beneficiaries who were recently diagnosed with cancer, one in seven (14%) received care at a nursing home, and more than half of these individuals were using ...

A Pruitt Home and Home Health and Hospice surprised one of its nurses who rescued a patient from a burning home last week.

According to the Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association’s 2024 Alaska Healthcare Workforce Analysis, an additional 1,412 ...

A nurse at a Clermont County nursing home was arrested after being caught on a security camera smoking what deputies described as “a white substance” right next to a patient.Brian Kenny, 57, was ...

A Wisconsin nurse avoided jail time after amputating a hospice patient's foot without consent. Mary K. Brown pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of patient neglect, with original felony charges ...