Months after announcing a new program to validate self-reported nursing home quality data, the Centers for Medicare & ...

About 25% of Medicare beneficiaries with dementia were prescribed high-risk central nervous system (CNS) – active medications associated with falls, confusion and hospitalizations between 2013 and ...

It was another long night in the quality department. The reports didn’t add up, the complaints kept coming, and somewhere in the data, the truth was ...

Nursing homes have lost 5% of operating capacity since 2020, according to a new study examining why providers have had to limit admissions.

CMS said Friday it plans to remove reporting about unsubstantiated complaints from Nursing Home Care Compare next month.

A year after predictions of a great regulatory revolution buoyed skilled nursing leaders, many are still waiting for significant relief — and they remain highly concerned about day-to-day reporting ...

Nursing facility inspections can feel like playing poker — except operators don’t know which cards the surveyor is holding, or if the rules might change mid-hand.

I sat in my office with the door closed, feeling utterly drained. We were falling short of our quality and financial goals, ...

Evidence-based interventions, such as educational strategies, clinical practice guidelines, and audit and feedback, are ...

Being more strategic about roommate assignments could lower 90-day mortality rates in nursing homes by more than 5% without ...

A study of nursing home survey teams reveals fewer than half of surveyors working in 2023 had at least four years experience, ...

Nearly 100 nursing homes can continue receiving state funding to help fund capital improvements at their aging facilities — ...