Safety-net hospitals in Texas that have benefitted from additional federal funds for owning private nursing homes will soon see those payments cut, according to The Dallas Morning News. A provision ...

An employee of the Amistad Nursing and Rehabilitation Center walks with a resident on April 1, 2021. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Texas has been violating federal law for decades by ...

Health care at any level is expensive, but at the top of the list is nursing home care. The national annual median cost of care for a resident in a private room in a nursing home is now $127,750, ...

Reductions could lead to decreased services or closures, slashing care for vulnerable older populations The nursing-home industry finds itself in the crosshairs of a congressional budget debate. The ...

Most of us would appreciate the ability to maintain our dignity in old age. Elderly people lose the potency of their immune systems, the ability to maintain muscle mass and can experience the ...

The total population of senior citizens is 55.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of that, 1.3 million are in nursing homes. That’s about 2.3%. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot, but the ...

All states except Alaska finance their share of Medicaid in part through provider taxes. States have increased their reliance on provider taxes over time, from 7% in 2008 to 17% in 2018, according to ...

MARIETTA, Ga. — Traversing the halls of his nursing home in a wheelchair, Owen Allen listened to a visiting guitarist play “Sweet Caroline,” then chipped away at a thousand-piece puzzle in the sunroom ...

Holly Lewis has already seen what happens when a nursing home has staffing troubles. Five years ago, as the COVID pandemic raged, Lewis watched institutional knowledge disappear from her mother’s ...