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 ...

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, ...

Older adults participate in a falls prevention awareness day of action in Fort Worth, Texas, in September. Around the nation, doctors, lawmakers, advocates and patients are ringing alarm bells over ...

Data: Assisted Living Magazine/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Nursing homes across the country rely heavily on Medicaid, with the safety net program covering ...

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 ...

Westminster Village North, a nursing home and retirement community in Indianapolis, recently added 25 beds and two kitchens to speed food delivery to residents. It also redesigned patient rooms to ...

In the aftermath of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), hospital funding cuts could disrupt care coordination, delay discharges, and heighten ...

Dr. Fred Levin has been watching with growing alarm the national debate around federal cuts to Medicaid. He’s responsible for the medical care of about 100 older adults at the Community PACE center in ...