Q: Our facility was recently cited under F-656, Comprehensive Care Plans, for the third year in a row. How can we ensure compliance? A:F-656 is one of the top 10 most-cited deficiencies. The ...

CMS released chapters 1, 3, and 5, and appendices A through H of the new Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) User's Manual for the MDS 3.0 on November 24 and plans to release the remaining ...

Canada's family doctors are calling on the federal government to develop a national home-care strategy for seniors and improved health care for young people, including the elimination of child ...

The final SNF PPS rule for fiscal 2024 requires nursing homes to submit 100% of Quality Reporting Program data on 90% of the MDS assessments submitted, up from 80%.

Howard Ripps, of Greenwich, doing business as Laurelton Residences LLC, plans to renovate the former Regal Care of Greenwich nursing home, at 1188 King St., into Laurelton Residences, a one-story ...

The 213-bed facility is set to close on or before Aug. 13, according to its closure plan. The Danville nursing home is a facility of Premier Healthcare of Illinois, which also operates Champaign ...

In the present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) providing long-term and post-acute care have been a focus of new infections and fatal illness outcomes.

Many of Canada’s doctors admit their financial health is not being taken care of and they feel unprepared for retirement, a survey conducted by The Medical Post finds.. Of the 642 medical doctors who ...

The Ontario government hopes to have 80% of family physicians practising in new family health networks (FHNs) by 2004, but it appears unlikely that hope will turn to fact. Only a handful of the ...

Netsmart Announces the Skilled Nursing Industry’s Only Data Analytics Solution with a Complete View of Claims, MDS and Staffing Netsmart advances data solutions suite through acquisition of CORE ...

Canada's family doctors are calling on the federal government to develop a national home-care strategy for seniors and improved health care for young people, including the elimination of child ...