Last April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new final rule requiring nursing homes that receive federal payments to meet certain minimum staffing requirements. While the CMS ...

Advocates are urging CMS to reinstate mandatory federal training requirements for nursing aides working directly with nursing home residents, citing safety concerns, Bloomberg Law reported Dec. 10.

Training nursing home workers to specialize in care areas like this can be a significant boost for nursing home workforces, experts say, because it helps retain facilities’ strongest employees by ...

Some states demand nursing homes spend more on care and are more transparent in their finances. Michigan could do the same.

What can nursing homes do to prevent resident-on-resident violence and sexual abuse, or at least make incidents less common? The Providence Journal posed that question to industry leaders, the union ...

Nursing home workers should be well trained in LGBTQ+ care to provide proper support to patients in the demographic, a recent article by two Indiana University researchers said, according to The Bay ...

Earlier this spring the Biden administration announced a new standard on staffing levels for nursing homes. Employee turnover at nursing homes shot up during the pandemic, when more than 200,000 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — There is a bill on the table in Albany designed to ease the nursing shortage here at home. Local lawmakers want to partner with Western New York hospitals, universities and ...