How Nursing Homes Turn Away IndigentsHealth Care and Public HealthMedicaidNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.2307/3560582Stephen R BlumN Malcolm HaynesInstitute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. The Hastings CenterThe Hastings Center Report...
Surmounting antimicrobial resistance in the Millennium Superbug: Staphylococcus aureus aureus clones from hospitals into communities and further into different geographical areas where they have been responsible for epidemic outbreaks. Thus, there...
FAQ: How We Rate Nursing Homes More In 2025, ratings were determined by nurse staffing, patient outcomes and whether steps known to be effective in avoiding harm and improving health were built into nursing home routines. Getty Images Nursing home care can be as short as a few days or weeks...
However, there were some disparities due to gender and net worth. Women tended to live longer in nursing homes than men did. (The median length of stay for women was 8 months, whereas the median length of stay for men was three months.) And residents with lower net worths tended to li...
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"I think this is really hard, especially for the generation of students that we're working with now. For a couple of years, they were going to school in their homes, maybe in their room, basement or living room. And it's just become such a common practice after our COVID times to ...
Then there’s the stratospheric cost of extended care at nursing homes. In New York, for example, just one year of care in a nursing home costs an average of $159,000 per person, according to the New York State Department of Financial Services. ...
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It's not an outcome that many people are aware of, according toa report from The New York Times and researchers at Hunter College. In a study of 700 guardianship cases filed in Manhattan over 10 years, the study found that more than 12 percent were for nursing homes seeking guardianship of...
When this editor was starting to cover issues in healthcare and aging in 1982, one of the first...Harrington, Charlene