A judge acquitted Jorge Carballo, a Florida nursing home administrator who faced manslaughter charges for the death of nine residents, during the third week of his trial, radio station WLRN reported Feb. 25.

A recent study found nursing home residents were more likely to have more aggressive end-of-life cancer care.

Immigrants could increase staff ratios and reduce staff shortages in nursing homes, according to a paper published in February by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The former executive director of the Louisiana Board of Examiners of Nursing Facility Administrators allegedly spent nearly $19,000 on personal expenses using an agency-issued credit card, the Louisiana Illuminator reported Feb. 20.

The Joint Commission partnered with Manchester Specialty Programs to provide insurance pricing benefits to Joint Commission-accredited nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home care, hospice and medical staffing firms.

A former Florida nursing home owner has been charged with willfully failing to pay $6 million in taxes that were withheld from employees' paychecks over to the IRS.

Nursing homes owned by private equity companies or other types of investment firms have worse quality of care and patient outcomes, according to a Feb. 13 CMS news release.

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.