nursing homes

Nursing home trade associations say they have come to an agreement to boost staffing levels at the facilities along with legislation newly signed by Gov. Tom Wolf to boost aid to an industry wracked by COVID-19 and struggling with high staff turnover.

A major report says American nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, and that facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced.

President Joe Biden is launching a major overhaul of nursing home quality in his State of the Union speech

Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.

The New Jersey National Guard is lending a much-needed helping hand to nursing homes that are currently short staffed amid rising COVID cases. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg explains.

Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots amid a spike in COVID-19 cases among staffers and a concerning lag in booster vaccination for residents and staff

It has been 19 months since the discovery of 17 bodies in a tiny morgue at the Andover Subacute II nursing home in Sussex County, New Jersey, in April 2020.

The government is telling nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing many remaining pandemic restrictions while urging residents, families and facility staff to keep their guard up against outbreaks

Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there was no guarantee that’s how the money would be spent. Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York are taking unprecedented steps to ensure they get what they pay for, after the devastating impact of COVID-19 exposed problems with staffing and...

While about 25% of retirees will need significant long-term care, many more will require either minimal support or none at all.

Louisiana health officials are revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where residents died after Hurricane Ida amid conditions deemed squalid and unsafe.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to hike taxes on Tuesday to fund health care and reforms to the country’s social-care system.

NBC10 Investigators reporter Mitch Blacher reports on a lawsuit against a Philadelphia-area nursing home stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Senior Democratic senators are introducing legislation that responds to the ravages of COVID-19 in nursing homes

The nation’s largest nursing home operator told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open an investigation into whether Pennsylvania violated federal law by ordering nursing homes to accept residents who had been treated for COVID-19 in a hospital.

The COVID-19 Pandemic forced many nursing homes to stop visits and force major restrictions on their residence. However as NBC10 investigative reporter Mitch Blacher found out, the cost and feeling of being alone was at times too much to bear.

Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated

Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes