nursing homes

Staff and residents are ‘scared to death’ of violent patients at dementia care homes

5:01am August 08, 2024

by Jordan Rau

Verbal, physical, and sexual aggression among dementia patients in long-term care facilities are alarmingly common. “There is a real problem with endemic violence,” one researcher says.

The Biden administration is establishing new standards for how much time each day a nursing home resident gets direct care from a nurse or an aide.

Most nursing homes don't have enough staff to meet the federal government's new rules

7:22pm April 24, 2024

by Jordan Rau

The new rules mean 4 out of 5 nursing homes will need more aides and nurses. Unions hailed the change, but advocates say it's not enough care, while nursing home owners say it's an "impossible task."

Supporters of Northview Village Nursing Home gather in St. Louis on Tuesday to show support for displaced residents and the employees left jobless by the facility's sudden closure.

A St. Louis nursing home closes suddenly, prompting wider concerns over care

5:33pm December 20, 2023

by Kristin Wright

The displacement of 170 nursing home residents is raising questions and renewing concerns over care facilities and the steep challenges families and frontline workers face in the care system.

Anne Sansevero discusses a client with one of her nurses, Beau Romero. Sansevero has seven employees in her growing private care management business in New York City.

Health & Safety

These pros help keep ailing, aging loved ones safe — but it's a costly service

10:51am December 12, 2023

by Ashley Milne-Tyte

Private care management, often nurses or social workers, is a growing field that helps people navigate the elder care system. People call it "a game changer" — but it comes at a high price.

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Sharon Hudson (left) has advanced Alzheimer's. But she smiles and giggles when her daughter, Lana Obermeyer, visits at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Syracuse, Nebraska.

Health & Safety

Rural nursing home operators say new staff rules would cause more closures

5:01am September 14, 2023

by Tony Leys

The Biden administration says a recently proposed minimum staffing standard would help ensure quality care, but nursing home leaders predict it will accelerate a trend of closures in rural America.

SEIU nursing home workers have been calling for safer staffing levels for years.

Health & Safety

Labor unions praise Biden's plan to boost staffing at nursing homes

6:32pm September 01, 2023

For the first time ever, nursing homes may soon have to guarantee a registered nurse is working 24/7 in every facility.

Residents and staff gather for a dance at the Ararat Nursing Facility in Los Angeles in April 2021. The pandemic exposed the dangers of inadequate staffing at nursing homes.

Health & Safety

Understaffed nursing homes are a huge problem, and Biden's promised fix 'sabotaged'

12:54pm September 01, 2023

by Jordan Rau

A study commissioned by the government to recommend minimum staffing levels at nursing homes drew no conclusions. And that means Biden's pledge to set those minimums may come to far less than hoped.

Lucille Brooks, a retiree who lives in Pittsford, New York, was sued in 2020 for nearly $8,000 by a nursing home that had taken care of her brother. The nursing home dropped the case after she showed she had no control over his money or authority to make

Health & Safety

Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills

4:43pm July 28, 2022

by Noam Levey

Debt lawsuits — a byproduct of America's medical debt crisis — can ensnare not only patients but also those who help sick and older people be admitted to nursing homes, a KHN-NPR investigation finds.

Emergency personnel arrive to evacuate people at a mass shelter, on Sept. 2, 2021 in Independence, La. The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has bee

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The owner of nursing homes whose residents suffered during Hurricane Ida is arrested

4:22pm June 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached last year was arrested on Wednesday.

Maurice Miller lies in bed in his room at a nursing home in Takoma Park, Md., on Thursday. The Biden administration is planning to establish a federal minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes as part of a broader push to improve care for seniors and

Health & Safety

Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill

9:51am April 06, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

To address the problem of poor care, President Biden is calling for a federal minimum staffing requirement in nursing homes. The nursing home industry says there aren't workers to fill the jobs.

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