Long-term care providers could soon see changes to the Nursing Home Compare website under the latest initiative by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The agency announced Thursday that it ...

Care Compare aims to give Medicare patients and family caregivers a user-friendly online tool to make informed decisions about healthcare based on location, cost, quality of care, volume of services, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services didn’t set out to make waves this summer, but a technology upgrade is having unexpected ripple effects. The federal agency recently announced a temporary ...

The Silver Lake Nursing Home, the site of a devastating explosion on Tuesday, had an overall rating of one star on Medicare’s ...

Older adults lose 1-3 percent of their muscle mass each day they spend in a hospital bed, requiring longer stays away from home. These effects can be mitigated by finding the best level and place of ...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) inspired the quality improvement movement for US nursing homes with its 1986 report titled Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. 1 The report noted the ...

You can see how the nursing homes in your community have fared in recent health and safety inspections by visiting Medicare's Nursing Home Compare website at medicare ...

The Biden administration today called for nursing homes to provide a complete picture of their owners and operators, proposing a new federal rule central to the president’s plans to improve the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Use this database to find out how nursing homes in New York state measure up in terms of staffing, nursing staff turnover and quality. Staffing levels are a key barometer of quality ...