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LEXINGTON - A newspaper's review of state records shows that some nursing home abuse investigations languish for months or even years before being resolved. The Lexington Herald-Leader reviewed 107 serious citations ...

Researchers at Brown University have found that the length of an average Medicare-certified hospice stay in a nursing home has doubled during the last 10 years. The study, which will appear in the August issue of The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, evaluated hospice use in U.S. nursing ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Advocates said this week's heat wave highlights a lack of regulations in Connecticut for temperature settings at nursing homes as residents live in sweltering conditions. Advocates for nursing home ...

Afternoon temperatures in Maryland eased back into the mid-90s on Thursday, but not before a week of extreme weather claimed the cooling system at another Baltimore nursing home. Seventy-four residents were moved out of ...

BALTIMORE - Maryland health officials are moving all 150 residents out of a Baltimore nursing home whose operators didn't report a broken air conditioner. Nancy Grimm, director of the state Office of Health Care Quality, says officials believe the air conditioner stopped working sometime Saturday ...

Baltimore and state officials are investigating why little was done for residents of a nursing home that lacked air conditioning for days. After a resident of the Ravenwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center called 911 on ...

Much like health in a person represents more than the absence of disease, a healthy work environment encompasses more than absence of malfunction. Like a healthy person who is active and contributing to the world, a ...

A newborn female giraffe is struggling in its first days of life, but is receiving special care from zookeepers, according to information from Dickerson Park Zoo. Born Wednesday, the baby and her mother Cheka were moved ...

Amedisys Inc. , the largest US home-nursing provider, fell the most in 10 months after it said the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether the Baton Rouge, La.-based company manipulated Medicare ...

BusinessWire - National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE:NHI) announced today it has closed a $6.2 million sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Texas to its current lessee Legend Healthcare and affiliates ("Legend"). These facilities were constructed in 1986 and 1990, total 182 beds, and were ...