Last week, as their first legislative introduction for the new Congress, Reps. Mike Levin (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) reintroduced the Nursing Home Disclosure Act (H. R. 177), bipartisan legislation to improve public disclosure of nursing home medical directors.
Older adults are at high risk of rehospitalization after an acute event and at even higher risk of permanently losing an activity of daily living with each hospitalization. This is especially true in those with encephalopathy, delirium, dementia, falls, and failure to thrive. Although it is widely known th...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes focuses on but is not limited to long-term care (LTC) residents with dementia; the potential impact on residents with other diagnoses is unclear. We sought to determine whether resident subpopulat...
Examine whether the introduction of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is associated with changes in post-acute care (PAC) use and 30-day readmission.
Providing safe, quality care in nursing homes is a top priority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Nursing home workers play a vital role in supporting residents with essential daily tasks, such as bathing, dressing, mobility, and eating. They also ensure medications are taken, and ...
Inappropriate drug prescription is a common problem in people living in nursing homes and is linked to adverse health outcomes. This study assessed the effect of an educational intervention directed to nursing home physicians in reducing inappropriate prescription and improving health outcomes and resource...
The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing a recent court ruling that blocked the new nursing home staffing mandate final rule. In April 2025, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) exceeded its statutory authority by imposing minimum staffing requirements on...
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its enhanced Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System, which integrates data nursing homes report on their weekend staffing rates for nurses and information on annual turnover among nurses and administrators.