Key Takeaways Many hospital trips by terminally ill nursing home patients are unnecessaryAbout 80% of ER visits are ...

Terminally ill patients in nursing homes are facing needless emergency room visits and hospital stays – about 80% of ER visits by this population is ...

Improve training for nursing home workers Most instances of violence and abuse involve nursing residents with severe cognitive disabilities. It takes skill to calm down those patients when they ...

A good marriage needs patients. A pair of lovebirds on Thursday exchanged vows, rings and hope for the future in a Bronx nursing home — where they first fell head over heels in love. A crowd of fellow ...

Between her patients' complex medical needs and their close proximity to each other, COVID continues to pose a grave threat to Loveland's nursing home — and to the 15,000 other certified nursing ...

Mary Ann Herbst, a patient at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Le Mars, Iowa, gets her first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Dec. 29, 2020. A recent study found only 4 out of 10 nursing home ...

Loveland has seen patients and coworkers at the nursing home where she works die from the viral disease. Now she has a new worry: bringing home the coronavirus and unwittingly infecting her infant ...

Instead of supporting recovery, food served in hospitals and nursing homes may actually undermine patients’ and residents’ ...

Melissa Taylor, the director of nursing for Morning Pointe Senior Living in Franklin, Indiana, walks past halls of smiling ...

New Brunswick Social Development Minister Cindy Miles has approved the temporary prioritization of patients at four hospitals ...

A plea deal with Mary K. Brown, a former nurse who amputated a patient's foot without his consent, dropped the felony charges ...

An inquest jury has returned an open verdict in the case of a 95-year-old woman with advanced dementia and physical limitations who was found dead in her nursing home bed with a duvet over her head, ...