RICHMOND, Va. — Doctors are only required to visit new residents in skilled nursing facilities within 30 days of admission, and only twice within 90 days, according to federal rules sent to CBS ...

Using risk assessment and nurse education in the High ED/Admission Risk Therapy (HEART) protocol reduced ED visits by 18% after chemoradiation treatment. Implementation of a High ED/Admission Risk ...

The Biden administration proposed multiple reforms to nursing homes after more than 200,000 nursing home and long-term care residents died during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nine-year-old Vivian Sleeth’s week included a school field trip, a sleepover with friends at her Rockledge home and meeting with her hospice nurse ... the visits with hospice began.

April 4 - Holding a two-point edge for the Eastern Conference's second wild-card spot, the Montreal Canadiens look to stretch their winning streak to four games Saturday night when they host the ...

An American Eskimo dog is doing all he can to help lift spirits at a local nursing home. For the last year and a half, about four to five times a week, Lori Burns brings her dog 'Bear' to visit ...

A retired nurse from Queens who nearly died from COVID-19 returned last week to The Mount Sinai Hospital’s cardiac intensive care unit—where she once worked—to thank the colleagues who saved ...

who had gone for six weeks without medication or daily nursing visits — during which the 25-year-old would be bathed and have his diaper changed — after AmeriHealth Caritas, a so-called ...

An Iowa nurse who was fired for an alleged pattern of patient neglect is not entitled to unemployment benefits, a judge has ruled. State records indicate Ashley K. Brooks worked as a registered nurse ...

Connecticut’s nursing home and other health care workers will remind state officials Tuesday that federal aid cuts ordered by President Donald J. Trump aren’t the only things they need to address.