Advocates are urging CMS to reinstate mandatory federal training requirements for nursing aides working directly with nursing home residents, citing safety concerns, Bloomberg Law reported Dec. 10.

Training nursing home workers to specialize in care areas like this can be a significant boost for nursing home workforces, experts say, because it helps retain facilities’ strongest employees by ...

Under a bill advancing in the House, Iowa's nursing home staff would undergo new training. House Study Bill 691 would require the Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing to conduct training ...

A key House committee this week advanced several bills designed to ease nursing home hiring and ensure expanded access to telehealth for another two years. The Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024, as ...

Nursing home workers should be well trained in LGBTQ+ care to provide proper support to patients in the demographic, a recent article by two Indiana University researchers said, according to The Bay ...

Army Specialist Robert Coleman has served in the New York National Guard for four years. Just a few weeks ago, he was working at his civilian job as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inefficient patchwork that is US health care payment policy. The impact of these policies on skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing facilities, ...