Mary Ousley, a long-time nurse leader and quality champion in skilled nursing, was honored Thursday as the 2026 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards Career Achievement honoree. Read her acceptance speech.

Good Samaritan Society – Sioux Falls Village in Sioux Falls, SD recently organized a simulated pub crawl for its residents. (Photo credit: Good Samaritan Society – Sioux Falls Village) Combining ...

A capacity crowd embraced 33 McKnight’s Pinnacle Award winners in a warm and moving ceremony Wednesday night that honored some of the long-term care sector’s best leaders and most devoted team members ...

More than 40% of older adults experienced more than one impairment in instrumental activities of living six months after elective noncardiac surgery, according to a March study published in JAMA ...

Reintroducing Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) into the Medicare Advantage (MA) risk-adjusted payment model was linked to improved care access ...

A Michigan-based physician group whose main clientele were nursing home patients must face trial on False Claims allegations after a judge rejected the group’s arguments that its alleged billing ...

In skilled nursing, fall prevention receives structured attention. Mobility often does not. That imbalance should give us pause. The pattern is familiar.

Individuals who received the shingles vaccine were 46% less likely to report a major adverse cardiac event in the following year, according to a study that will be presented at the American College of ...

A legal ruling expected any day could lead to permanent changes in how the government handles the kind of False Claim Act cases that have long dog skilled nursing operations.

A geriatrician-led falls prevention clinic service, including the option of a physiotherapist, generated high returns on investment — demonstrating potential viability as an economically attractive ...

Blaming prior authorization for “eroding trust between payers and providers,” federal officials said Monday they are evaluating how prior approvals might be better targeted to improve healthcare ...

You may have seen in the long-term care news feeds recently that the company that I work for, Broad River Rehab, and Aegis Therapies, have formed a ...