Ellsworth, introduced legislation on March 28 to provide $50 million of one-time funding for nursing facilities to the Nursing Facility Reform Transition Fund.

Hundreds of nursing home workers urged lawmakers to value what they do to avoid a strike. Many said during an event in ...

Dr. Fred Levin has been watching with growing alarm the national debate around federal cuts to Medicaid. He's responsible for ...

Senate Democrats are calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a new review of how oversight is ...

Each week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area with a funeral notice and online tribute page. To read the ...

Nursing home regulations updated A new law is on the books in Illinois designed to protect nursing home residents. Under the new law, nursing homes are prohibited from retaliating against a resident ...

Disability rights advocates say income and asset caps for Medicaid buy-in programs are a "poverty trap" for millions of ...

Missouri has a handful of proposed bills on the table aimed directly at long-term care facilities' staffing levels and compliance guidelines.

A labor union has intervened in Iowa’s lawsuit to block nursing home staffing mandates, arguing the new rules will ease a ...

The field of cardio-oncology has expanded over the past 2 decades to address the ever-increasing issues related to cardiovascular disease in patients with cancer and survivors. There is increasing ...

Workers in the Illinois Department of Aging’s Community Care Program are calling for higher taxes to pay for higher wages.

More than a quarter of state survey agencies lack adequate emergency preparedness skills, a new federal report shows.