No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...

Northbridge Health Care Center in Bridgeport is one of four nursing home facilities in the state that were to serve COVID-19 patients who did not require acute care hospitalization. Credit: Cloe ...

Phillip Esformes, the alleged mastermind of one of "the largest single criminal health care fraud cases ever brought against individuals by the Department of Justice," [1] has finally reached a plea ...

BOSTON (State House News Service) – Care for seniors in nursing homes and across the entire continuum of services should be improved, and the COVID-19 pandemic could serve as an impetus for that ...

Dec. 7, 1941, is a date that lives in infamy for nearly every American. Movies have been made about it, memorials created, and history has established it as the date that moved the United States into ...

In her hospital room, Mrs. Sanchez was in stable condition as her family gathered by her bedside, but within minutes she went into cardiac arrest and died soon after. Luckily, this health tragedy wasn ...

In a few days, the winners of HCPro's 2010 Nursing Image Awards will be announced. Out of hundreds of nominees, two nurses will be selected as the embodiment of leadership and clinical excellence. I ...

ESTELLINE, S.D. (KELO) — All told, 53 residents live at Estelline Nursing and Care Center; two are 101 years old, two are 98, and one is 99. Thallis Jensen, the most senior resident, will turn 102 in ...

How often – and how well – do health care programs teach lessons about the impact that climate exerts on health? And as more of us are exposed to and sickened by toxins, polluted air, unsafe drinking ...

"There's signs of life. Things are springing up again," said Dr. Jim Wright Inside the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center just outside Richmond, Virginia, -- where 49 people have died from ...

The operator of two New Jersey nursing homes is partnering with the state’s largest hospital system, with both sides getting a little something out of the affair. Roosevelt Care Centers — which ...