Syracuse, N.Y. -- In addition to scrapping the traditional model of the big impersonal nursing home, Loretto is about to radically redefine the role of the nursing home worker. At Loretto’s 13 small ...

It took five years and a worldwide pandemic to make it happen, but state lawmakers Thursday approved a bill that would require a minimum number of frontline nursing home workers on every shift.

They feed, bathe and comfort residents of long-term care facilities, but the thousands of certified nursing aides who work in New Jersey’s nursing homes for little pay have said for years that their ...