Months after announcing a new program to validate self-reported nursing home quality data, the Centers for Medicare & ...

About 25% of Medicare beneficiaries with dementia were prescribed high-risk central nervous system (CNS) – active medications associated with falls, confusion and hospitalizations between 2013 and ...

It was another long night in the quality department. The reports didn’t add up, the complaints kept coming, and somewhere in the data, the truth was ...

Nursing homes have lost 5% of operating capacity since 2020, according to a new study examining why providers have had to limit admissions.

A year after predictions of a great regulatory revolution buoyed skilled nursing leaders, many are still waiting for significant relief — and they remain highly concerned about day-to-day reporting ...

Nursing facility inspections can feel like playing poker — except operators don’t know which cards the surveyor is holding, or if the rules might change mid-hand.

CMS said Friday it plans to remove reporting about unsubstantiated complaints from Nursing Home Care Compare next month.

The final entry deadline for the 2026 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards is Friday, Jan. 23. Now in its eighth year, the program recognizes women making a difference in skilled nursing, senior ...

I sat in my office with the door closed, feeling utterly drained. We were falling short of our quality and financial goals, ...

Being more strategic about roommate assignments could lower 90-day mortality rates in nursing homes by more than 5% without ...

Evidence-based interventions, such as educational strategies, clinical practice guidelines, and audit and feedback, are ...

A study of nursing home survey teams reveals fewer than half of surveyors working in 2023 had at least four years experience, ...