The Office of Inspector General has announced it will take a magnifying glass to how nursing homes employ and pay medical ...

Unintentional falls among older adults have become increasingly deadly, with new federal data revealing significant increases ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday announced it is making major changes to its Care Compare site, ...

Patients in Medicare Advantage plans are staying longer in the hospital but receiving considerably less post-acute care than their peers in traditional Medicare, according to a new study.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday dropped a pair of surprise memos that will have an immediate effect on one-fifth of all nursing homes’ ratings and give consumers more timely ...

Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improves short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers … JAMA releases feeding guide for advanced dementia patients and families … Heart ...

A large-scale study examining coffee consumption patterns among American adults has found that drinking one to two cups of coffee daily may reduce the risk of death from all causes and cardiovascular ...

A comprehensive study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older reveals that emergency room diagnostic errors occur in approximately 3.2% of serious medical emergencies, affecting roughly 1 in every ...

When attending a dinner last spring with colleagues, I knew it was going to be a long night. A nice restaurant. Cloth napkins. Too many forks to choose ...

The Senate would spare skilled nursing facilities from limits on state-level provider taxes that would hit other sectors hard ...

A new study published in JAMA Network Open demonstrates that hospital virtual discharge meetings between patients, ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has released updated guidelines for preventing ...