Medicare Part D claims significantly underreport opioid dispensing for patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities after hospitalizations, according to a September research letter published in the ...

Developing depression half a month after gastrointestinal (GI) disease presented an elevated risk of dementia among participants in a November study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

Everyone has heard about someone who lost their life’s savings to the high cost of long-term care. The media is full of such stories. KFF Health News and ...

As the calendar flips toward Thanksgiving week, the entire McKnight’s staff would like to wish all of our readers many reflective moments of satisfaction and gratitude in their lives.

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

Private equity’s expanding role in nursing homes and other healthcare settings is raising alarms from coast to coast, with state lawmakers introducing legislation in an effort to reduce its control ...

A Texas-based skilled nursing operator is now offering on-site blood transfusions, becoming one of just a few such providers ...

This week, somewhere between Richmond, VA, and Washington, DC, I rediscovered something I didn’t realize I had missed: the simple, steady calm of slowing ...

Months after it secured a Five-Star rating and was widely celebrated for completing its rebound from Medicare decertification, San Francisco’s largest nursing home continues to pay the price for ...

Older adults who experience a new geriatric condition, such as dehydration, delirium or malnutrition, after major surgery are at an increased risk of having poor health outcomes, according to a ...

President Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to Joseph Schwartz on Friday, making him the third upper-echelon ...

A federal watchdog said Tuesday it has begun auditing nursing homes’ use of the Patient Driven Payment Model to drive skilled ...