Hospitals are referring a larger share of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which typically favor home health as the provider of any additional step-down care, a recent study ...

Despite calls by advocacy groups for nursing homes to eliminate the 3-day hospital stay rule, the structure of insurance ...

Opioid prescriptions for U.S. nursing home residents dropped sharply between 2011 and 2022, according to UCSF researchers - ...

A plaintiffs group says the bankruptcy-court-approved process deprives them of the right to sue parties not protected by ...

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 ...

After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired the broken hip that resulted, the 75-year-old electrician found himself at a ...

Since the height of the opioid epidemic, doctors have been prescribing fewer of these medications. A new study from UC San ...

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California leads the U.S. with the most nursing homes as top performers in both categories, at 122, yet it also has 1,162 ...