A Kirkcaldy care home has been handed a six-point action plan after inspectors identified “serious and significant concerns” ...

Nursing homes would also suffer if the tax cap is lowered, state officials said. Lerche said a decrease could force the state to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates for skilled nursing facilities, which ...

Derby nursing home where residents at risk of ‘harm’ and ‘abuse’ placed in special measures Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission stepped in to 'protect people' who have dementia and ...

A Derby nursing home has been placed in special measures "to protect people" after inspectors found that the elderly people with dementia and physical disabilities living there were not being ...

A care home has been placed into special measures following a scathing report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which highlighted residents were exposed to potential "risk of harm".

The government will be left to deal with a “tsunami of unmet need” chiefly as a result of a shortage of care home staff, a devastating report by the care regulator has warned. The Care Quality ...

While they were in their mother’s care, she sought help and engaged with child protection and other services. Child protection assessed the risk to the children and their mother as ‘serious risk’. The ...

Many nursing homes may need to make only minimal changes to comply. While just about 20 percent of nursing homes now meet these standards, our analysis found that an additional 14 percent are out ...

Inclusive patient care: Expanded eligibility beyond standard BMI ranges with direct tissue thickness assessment, ensuring a broader, more diverse patient population benefits from fracture risk ...

The risk assessment ROAG-J – which includes screening with a mouth mirror and a flashlight, as well as planning and preventive oral care measures – is part of the quality register. Unclear ...

Yet according to the LTCCC’s most recent analysis, the drugs are still being given to 21.3 percent of nursing home residents, irrespective of whether they’ve been diagnosed with a major psychotic ...