Opioid prescription decreased among nursing homes between 2011 and 2022, reflecting national patterns in primary care while ...

Drug theft, or the illegal distribution or abuse of prescription drugs, in healthcare facilities such as hospitals and clinics is an ongoing issue that can lead to patient harm, according to the ...

With drug overdoses among seniors surging to historic levels, nursing homes will undoubtedly be drawn further into the world of addiction treatment. But facing additional regulatory scrutiny and ...

After a multi-year saga, surveyors today begin enforcing compliance with new Requirements of Participation guidance. It includes hundreds of pages of challenging changes to abuse reporting and ...

The ADA is the basis of an agreement that keeps North Carolina nursing centers from excluding all people with addiction ...

Among over 60,000 nursing home residents who initiated antihypertensive medication, rates of excess fractures due to falls per 100 person-years were as high as 5 among certain patient groups, such as ...

WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va (WCHS) — A Wayne County nurse is facing three counts of abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult after being accused of failing to give nursing home residents medication. Jamie ...

A nurse is accused of taking prescription painkillers and medication for anxiety and panic disorders from 13 nursing home patients in Baldwin, North Huntingdon and McCandless. Monica Blackwell, 41, of ...

A Clermont County nurse has been indicted on multiple charges following allegations of medication theft at a Batavia Township nursing home.Angela Holton, 41, was indicted on Tuesday by a Clermont ...

A small percentage of nursing home patients are carrying multidrug-resistant bacteria into hospitals without showing symptoms, according to research from the American Journal of Infection Control.

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — After CBS 6's reporting into the state's delayed and backlogged efforts to inspect and investigate Virginia's nursing homes, the health department completed a complaint ...