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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

'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 ...

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 ...

For Kristin Thames, a home health registered nurse (RN), the recent spate of destructive wildfires brought her face-to-face with one of her longtime fears: how to evacuate non-ambulatory patients ...

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

As a self-proclaimed lifelong learner and former educator, Amy Boyington is passionate about researching and advocating for learners of all ages. For over a decade, Amy has specialized in writing ...

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 ...