Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buried in 374 pages of the state budget passed June 30 is a jargon-filled passage dealing with Medicaid payments to nursing homes ...

More worrying signs in America’s nursing homes.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — By the time a nursing home sent a 69-year-old Harrisonville man to the hospital, his body was covered with gaping bedsores. One was so bad, maggots were found inside. He died not ...

Like the premature report of Mark Twain”s death, the widely circulated statistic that the average nursing home stay lasts for three years is greatly exaggerated. Three months is more like it, ...

We have long voiced concerns over the quality of care provided by Louisiana’s politically powerful nursing home industry. Yet a bill working its way through the Legislature would actually reduce the ...

AUSTIN - Two years after falling short in a high-profile bid to crack down on bad nursing homes, some Texas state lawmakers are trying again. State Sen. Charles Schwertner kicked off the effort by ...

A trail of blood and brains led nursing home staff in Houston to a room where a mentally ill resident had beaten his two roommates to death.A 45-year-old man who had been missing for hours at his ...