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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) recent “Worker Classification” rule might be a topic where facts and points of view are coming at you from all sides. Your eyes may glaze. Your cursor may be ascending...

Back in September, I shared my insights in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News about the importance of being your own data defender. In that blog, I expressed a viewpoint that I believe strongly in: Every...

Federal regulators have quietly put in place new, stricter enforcement measures for nursing homes that struggle to meet infection control and vaccine immunization requirements for residents and staff.

While providers largely agreed with Monday’s new federal call for states to tie increased Medicaid funding to accountability, they remained concerned about what that could mean for nursing homes in states...

Nursing homes provided post-acute rehabilitation services to residents during the pandemic that were comparable to pre-pandemic services although the amount of time spent in group therapy declined, according...

Report: Medicare will fall short on coverage for nursing home stays, home health care by 2031 … Study finds high levels of Alzheimer’s tau proteins only in women with delayed hormone therapy … Earlier...

Faced with steep Medicaid reimbursement shortfalls, one 90-year-old facility believes its only way forward is to cut back more than half of its available long-term care beds.

The 55-year-old female resident with multiple wounds on both of her arms wasn’t this nurse’s favorite.  Yes, the nurse had provided wound care over the years to many people who were irritable...

Underreporting of falls and pressure ulcers in nursing homes was frequent and “widespread” in a new study of such incidents and whether they were accurately reflected on Care Compare.

A new educational standard from the Commission on Dietetic Registration is likely to push nursing homes to use consultants and remote work more to meet required registered dietitian needs.