A national study of state-level nursing home staffing mandates, which found that higher direct care staffing requirements did not hurt finances or ...

John Bodnar, a resident at Advanced Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, reads the news in his room every day. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror Legislators intent on boosting direct care for ...

Nursing home operators and patient advocates should be energized by new study results that show minimum staffing mandates increased staff levels without causing patient or financial harm, researchers ...

BOSTON — Nursing homes looking to retain more of their frontline staff should level up their retention game by pouring more resources into direct care supervisors, experts recommended here Sunday. “If ...

Direct care workers are the unsung heroes of our healthcare system. These are the compassionate individuals who provide care for the elderly and people with disabilities. They are the ones who go into ...

As part of the Biden administration’s initiative to ensure safe and quality care in long-term care facilities, on May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a final ...

Efforts to increase direct care staffing levels in aged care homes are working but a new study raises a critical question: Is this enough to improve quality of care for older people? Led by Flinders ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Fran Mancl was thinking ahead. A certified nursing assistant at a nursing home, he wasn’t making enough ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers unveiled a bill Wednesday that would require hospitals to provide adequate nursing and direct care staff for all patients at virtually all ...

Legislators intent on boosting direct care for nursing home residents have recommended raising the daily minimum staffing requirement from three to 3.6 hours, a change that would provide about 36 ...