Hospital Walking Program Kept Some Patients Out of Nursing Homes: Study
A new study finds that walking programs in hospitals can prevent older patients from needing nursing home care and admission.
A new study finds that walking programs in hospitals can prevent older patients from needing nursing home care and admission.
A new study finds that nursing home falls and bedsores are often underreported to the government agency charged with rating nursing homes.
A Florida jury has awarded $12.5 million to a woman whose mother died due to complications from a massive bedsore which developed just two months after she was put in…
While nearly 25% of patients are likely to suffer adverse events in the hospital, many of those may be preventable, according to the findings of a new study.
Lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the acquisition of nursing homes by private equity firms, raising concerns the trend is increasing the risk of nursing home neglect and other…
A new report reveals widespread nursing home neglect and failure to prevent bedsores at VA nursing homes nationwide.
A new study finds that decreases in hospital bedsore incidents have not affected the rate of severe bedsore injuries, and that all bedsores are likely under-reported.
Researchers warn that a quarter of all nursing home residents worldwide carry colonies of drug-resistant bacteria, with higher rates in the U.S. than in other countries.
The family of a Massachusetts woman has been awarded $14 million in a nursing home wrongful death lawsuit.
A New Jersey jury ruled that substandard treatment at a nursing home led to the death of a woman treated there for just three months before her death.