The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rate facilities accepting its payments on a five-star scale. Here’s how local ...

From Savannah to Beaufort, here are the best and the worst nursing home facilities, according to the April report by the ...

A Henrico County nursing home has been identified as one of the worst long-term care facilities in the country, and is now subject to increased oversight by state and federal regulators.

A cadre of researchers — including the de facto dean of nursing home staffing studies — has proposed a new tool using a nursing home’s case-mix index as a way to set expected daily nurse staffing ...

“We believe CMS has clear regulatory authority ... And when analyzing the long-stay measure, nursing homes’ average ratings dropped from 3 stars to 1 star (for six months).

Three federal lawmakers sent a formal request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services calling for stronger nursing ...

One in six people 60 years and older has experienced abuse in a community setting, the World Health Organization says.

LMH Health has received five stars for hospital quality in rankings released last week from the Centers for Medicare & ...

You can’t feed anyone on less than $10 a day,” said a Harvard professor who studies nursing homes. Is anyone watching?

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has yet to address a recommendation made by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to identify additional ...

The nursing home industry’s main lobbying organization, the American Health Care Association, has argued that with private ...

Locating the best and safest nursing home for your loved ones can be a long and tough assignment. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has compiled a guide to nursing facilities ...