May 01, 2017

The new administration has promised to relax restrictive regulations and provide a host of economic incentives to expand and improve. But providers should beware of the double-edged sword of uncertainty....

Canadian researchers urged reconsideration of how drugs are administered to nursing home residents with dementia shortly before death.

The 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards are now accepting submissions from long-term and senior care providers.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission voted in April to recommend an accelerated timeline that would see implementation of a site-neutral post-acute care payment system kick off in 2021.

LeadingAge executives met with new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in April, prioritizing regulatory concerns.

It wasn’t too long ago that thousands of nursing homes were fleeing the Medicaid program.

A Pennsylvania court in March dismissed a lawsuit filed against 25 Golden LivingCenters by the former state attorney general.

In a win for providers, the United States Supreme Court declined in late March to review an arbitration dispute between an Extendicare facility and the family of a deceased resident.

What should we know and/or do about the right-to-die movement, which seems to be growing?

Heart failure patients who went to a nursing home were 50% more likely to be readmitted to the hospital than patients who returned home instead, according to a study in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings.