December 01, 2017

While long-term care continues to struggle between providing opioids for residents in pain and the ramifications from a national epidemic of overdoses, multiple attorneys general are now asking the courts...

The American College of Health Care Administrators announced 37-year long-term care veteran Bill McGinley, CNHA, CALA, CAS, FACHCA, as its new president and CEO last month.

A vaccine that combines genes from four strains of influenza may one day serve as a universal flu shot, researchers said in November.

Medicare payments would decrease for for-profit and freestanding providers under a proposal being considered by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission designed to accelerate reimbursement adjustments.

President Donald Trump chose a former pharmaceutical company executive in mid-November to take over as the nation’s top health official.

Nonprofit providers could be ravaged by a Republican tax plan winding its way through Congress, industry leaders said in November.

When it comes to skilled-care staffing, the future outlook is bleak. If it’s possible, the situation for nurses might be even worse.

Patients discharged to a skilled nursing facility after trauma had lower odds of mortality when the facility had fewer beds per nurse, new research shows.

Long-term care nurses often feel isolated from the rest of the healthcare workforce, asking themselves, “Am I actually a nurse?”

My administrator has asked me to lead the effort to prepare our Facility-Wide Assessment (FWA). What does this mean for me, as the director of nursing?