Two bills that would require nursing homes to devote 80% of their funds to the direct care of residents moved through the Human Services Committee on Thursday despite objections from industry leaders, ...

John Bodnar, a resident at Advanced Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, reads the news in his room every day. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror Legislators intent on boosting direct care for ...

At a time when staffing and funding regulations for nursing homes are ramping up at both the state and federal levels, one state is reconsidering its demands on long-term care spending. Oklahoma law ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly 200 nursing homes across Virginia are suing the state for its alleged failure to give them increased Medicaid funding, as directed by lawmakers. Meanwhile, Gov. Glenn Youngkin's ...

In his 2022 executive order on nursing home resident safety and care quality, President Joe Biden “committed to building a long-term care system where all seniors can age with dignity, where people ...

Changes in nursing homes ownership were found to lower direct care staffing levels, with nurse staffing comprising the bulk of the decline, a new study finds. Research showed that between January 2018 ...

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Legislators intent on boosting direct care for nursing home residents have recommended raising the daily minimum staffing requirement from three to 3.6 hours, a change that would provide about 36 ...

Delinda Phillips has cared for seniors in some capacity since she was a child, tagging along with her mother, who worked as a home healthcare worker. Phillips, 55, of Chicago, has been in the ...