During the pandemic, one very clear tragedy stood out: Approximately 200,000 residents and staff died from COVID-19 in nursing homes. However, what many people don’t realize is that even before the ...

New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

The New York City Health Department is kicking off a new program that aims to keep COVID-19 infections down at nursing homes. AP/John Minchillo The New York City Health Department is developing a new ...

A federal watchdog agency remains hot on its investigation of nursing homes’ compliance with infection control regulations — and how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services oversees their ...

About 1 in 4 for-profit nursing homes across the country are likely not complying with federal regulations surrounding infection control staff, increasing health and safety risks for residents and ...

One-third of COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic were associated with nursing homes, which is leading infection control experts to push for more oversight from Congress, according to a June 20 news ...

Stricter controls 'will help people move more gracefully toward the end of life,' infection control industry leader says. Infection control tended to be part of a list of responsibilities in most ...

Nursing home providers struggled with implementing infection control plans last year, according to a review of surveyor data during 2020. The Joint Commission late last week identified the most ...

OIG new data brief's findings reflect a need to reexamine staffing minimums. Findings in a recent data brief from the Office of Inspector General looking at nursing homes with high infection rates ...

Demonstrators gather beside a presentation depicting the number 15,000 to denote estimated nursing home deaths, before a rally decrying former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the previous year's ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 200 long-term care facilities in Ohio that were hit with fines for inadequate infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic also got federal incentive payments worth millions ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the current design for nursing homes is not conducive to infection control, Kenneth Scott, MD, wrote in Forbes. CMS reported a total of 1,163,417 confirmed ...