Lowering rehospitalizations by better educating nursing home clinical and operational leaders is the focus of a major new federally funded initiative. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has ...

On August 25, 2020, CMS announced two new changes pertaining to nursing homes during the COVID-19 public health emergency. First, CMS published an interim final rule with comment period (IFC), which ...

Nursing homes are increasingly hiring housekeepers, waitresses and residents’ own relatives as temporary nurse’s aides after they learn how to feed, bathe and care for elderly and disabled residents ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality along with the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement have partnered to establish a network that will ...

With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion for creating accessible, relevant content that demystifies the higher-ed ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Massachusetts Senior Care Association and Hebrew SeniorLife will help train 300 nursing homes across the state in infection control as part of a national program, officials ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a July press conference. An infection control training program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is now available for frontline facility ...

A CARE home is ramping up its support for dementia patients.

Care home provider Forest Healthcare has showcased new ways care homes can adjust their policies to provide greater inclusion between care professionals and residents Borehamwood, United ...