HHS issued a proposed rule requiring nursing homes to disclose ownership and management information, including the provider of services to a facility.

In 2022, Florida nursing homes were cited 83 times for putting residents at risk of immediate danger, nearly double the violations since before 2019, the Tampa Bay Times reported Feb. 10.

The Labor Department ordered a Michigan nursing home owner and operator to pay $69,022 in back wages and damages for not paying her managers overtime.

A Florida nursing home administrator is on trial for the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017 in what his attorney calls a "scapegoat" case, ABC News reported Feb. 6.

An Alzheimer's care facility in Iowa pronounced a 66-year-old woman dead, but funeral home staff unzipped her body bag to find her gasping for air, NPR reported Feb. 4.

A Wisconsin indictment charged Kevin Breslin, CEO of Park Ridge, N.J.-based Atrium Health and Senior Living, with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.

Aultman said Feb. 1 that it will cease operations at two skilled nursing facilities: the Transitional Care Center at Aultman Woodlawn in Canton, Ohio, and the Community Care Center at Aultman Alliance (Ohio) Community Hospital.

As America’s hospitalized patients become increasingly complex, so does their treatment. Today, almost 30 percent of US adults have multiple chronic conditions [1]. 

A string of recent lawsuits uncover a trend of nursing home owners moving money into their own pockets through corporate arrangements that are widespread — and legal — in every state, NPR reported Jan. 31.

CMS reported 128 nursing homes have closed or merged in 2022, but the count is likely higher.

A study by researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School researchers found specialty care visits fell after patients moved into a nursing home.

A federal class-action lawsuit intends to highlight and rectify how people with disabilities are being housed in nursing homes without proper resources or plans to transition them to appropriate settings, radio station GBH News reported Jan. 26.

A California nursing home was ordered to pay $30.9 million in damages in the wake of a resident's death.

Detroit-based Wayne State University researchers found a standardized hand-off procedure between hospitals to skilled nursing facilities that improved communication and decreased late medication administration.

Tracy Vinciguerra was named CEO for UT Health East Texas Long-Term Acute Care and UT Health East Texas Rehabilitation Center, both in Tyler.

A letter signed by a bipartisan group of 13 senators is asking CMS to halt its plan for staffing mandates, citing fears it will harm already struggling nursing homes.

Former Arkansas nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was hit with an $8.4 million judgment over the death of a resident, Arkansas Business reported Jan. 23.

An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found nursing homes have experienced the worst job loss of any healthcare sector.

Here are five nursing homes opening and closing recently:

An HHS report released in January found that more than 1,000 nursing homes had a 75 percent or higher rate of infection during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.