CMS said Friday it plans to remove reporting about unsubstantiated complaints from Nursing Home Care Compare next month.

Medicare’s nursing home ratings are one tool people can use to evaluate potential long-term care facilities. While they offer insight into staff levels and performance on health and quality ...

More consumers are turning to social media review platforms to help choose a nursing home for family members, but the reviews can be skewed by anecdotal and personal evidence, a new study shows. The ...

Most nursing home residents pay for care from either personal savings, a long-term care insurance policy or through Medicaid once their savings are depleted. Or, if your dad is a veteran, he may be ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), Center for Clinical Standards and Quality recently announced upcoming changes to skilled nursing facility (“SNF”) profiles on the Medicare Care ...

Medicare has lowered its star ratings for staffing levels in one out of 11 of the nation’s nursing homes — almost 1,400 of them — because they were either inadequately staffed with registered nurses ...

How many times do we rely on the Internet to answer life’s little questions, such as which movies to see or where to go for dinner? So, why not use it to help settle some of the bigger questions, like ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service assigns a five-star rating to every facility in the U.S. that accepts its payment. The rating considers health inspection data, staffing information and ...

The Silver Lake Nursing Home, the site of a devastating explosion on Tuesday, had an overall rating of one star on Medicare’s federal Care Compare system, indicating its health inspections are ...

It's overwhelming enough helping your mom get discharged from the hospital after a fall. But what if her doctor doesn't think it's safe for her to return home? As you scramble to find somewhere ...