A nursing home has been found negligent after a patient burned her foot on a heater next to her bed. She is the fifth nursing home resident in her state, who has been burned by such heaters in the last…

One state’s recent legal decision to separate mentally ill nursing home residents from others by moving them into smaller mental health settings is likely to prompt an industry-wide examination of the practice of accepting mentally ill residents into long-term care….

One state’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), has equipped the many state nursing homes with copies of the Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers, a new reference resource. Co-authored by Elizabeth Ayello, PhD, RN, and Jeffrey Levine, MD, the Pocket Guide…

A woman once convicted of stealing from the nursing home she ran while patients were being neglected, will now go to prison for tax evasion. The 57-year-old was CEO, administrator and part owner of a nursing home which closed in…

A video has been obtained which shows shocking footage of mistreatment by a nurse in a nursing home. In the footage a nurse is seen allegedly dumping an elderly woman in a wheelchair on the floor. It has led to…

An panel of nutrition experts drawn from Europe and North America has released new universal definitions of malnutrition to help researchers, clinicians and healthcare workers identify and treat malnutrition. The development of the new definitions was in response to a…