Institutional Special Needs Plans could be the tool nursing homes need to find better clinical and financial success and help the government achieve its goals of reducing costs and improving quality, ...

Living through a pandemic exposed serious flaws in our healthcare system. Hospitals were overwhelmed with sick patients, and fear of exposure to COVID-19 prevented many Americans from getting and ...

Seventeen Democratic senators are proposing to add home care coverage to Medicare for the first time, along with an expansion of Medicaid home- and community-based services. The proposed framework, ...

Nursing homes across the country had less staffing in states where legislatures granted the facilities immunity from COVID-19 ...

Last week, a group of Democratic senators unveiled a framework that would add non-medical home care to Medicare and make home- and community-based ...

Adriana Parada, is a certified nurse assistant providing care to Maria Antunez, 91. (Photo by Cliff Grassmick/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images) New government projections ...

High-intensity home-based rehabilitation (HIHR) may substitute for facility-based postacute rehabilitation. Patients in HIHR had better functional outcomes at lower costs than patients in ...

A study of more than 13,000 US nursing homes concludes that those in states that adopted laws granting them immunity from ...

Home and community-based services (HCBS) are the predominant approach to delivering long-term services and supports in the US, but there are growing numbers of reports of worker shortages in this ...

Faced with mounting reimbursement pressures, home-based care providers are rethinking their playbook, diversifying payer ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the dangers of tying health care delivery to brick-and-mortar health care facilities. Both before and, more intensely, during the pandemic, health systems have struggled ...

The Home and Community-Based Services Access Act and the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act have been introduced to provide much-needed support for caregivers and direct care workers, and to ...