The official overseeing a federal lending program critical to skilled nursing providers promises more changes are coming to speed up loan applications and processing.

Frailty was significantly associated with an increased risk of malnutrition among older adults while greater masticatory (chewing) performance was associated with reduced risk, according to a February ...

A fall prevention program for older adults offered benefits across two health systems with varied operations, volume and staffing with similar results, according to a January study published in ...

A group of seven Democratic senators is introducing legislation backing a new nursing home staffing rule that imposes similar standards as those included in repealed federal regulations.

The workforce crisis facing nursing homes extends to the professionals responsible for the medical care of the residents. With that challenge comes opportunity.

Dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with complex medical needs had a higher likelihood of utilizing nursing home (NH) services compared to home- and community-based services (HCBS), ...

Three years after ProMedica walked away from most of its skilled nursing assets and they fell to joint venture partner Welltower, the real estate investment trust is also backing away.

Clinicians faced a variety of ethical challenges while providing care for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Medicare’s three-day rule was introduced 60 years ago to moderate costs of care for hospital patients headed to nursing home care, but the rule now appears to be artificially inflating overall costs, ...

Providers must prepare both for shifting demographics and a new “Fee-for-Value” system that will continue to shift how the government pays for skilled nursing care, the head of the nation’s top ...

LTC financing is the castle; orthodox academics defend it; peer review is their moat. Let me explain. A recent scholarly article titled “Asset Spend-Down ...

As many smaller providers have exited the market in recent years, some of the nation’s largest nursing homes chains have benefited by picking up buildings and beds that give them entry  into critical ...