Providers welcomed the “good news” Monday that the budget for a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services nursing home staffing campaign has more than doubled to reach $200 million.

When paired with Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) and leadership training focused on communication, deeply involved coaches were able to support staff to move the needle on quality ...

CMS Administrator Mehmet OZ said Monday that the budget for his agency’s nursing home staffing campaign has more than doubled to reach $200 million.

On August 25, 2020, CMS announced two new changes pertaining to nursing homes during the COVID-19 public health emergency. First, CMS published an interim final rule with comment period (IFC), which ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality along with the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement have partnered to establish a network that will ...

Premier at Perry Village in New Bloomfield has launched its own nurse aide training program, a move leaders say is aimed at ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Massachusetts Senior Care Association and Hebrew SeniorLife will help train 300 nursing homes across the state in infection control as part of a national program, officials ...

While unionization in nursing homes drastically changed staffing patterns in the sector, it didn’t measurably affect overall care quality. In reality, the ...

Short-term training programs are giving thousands of Long Islanders the steppingstone they need to snag jobs in fast-growing health care fields. Training takes under a year, and demand for the jobs ...

The state of Iowa has agreed to temporarily waive training requirements for nurse aides who deliver much of the hands-on care in nursing homes. The state of Iowa has agreed to temporarily waive ...