By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, Jan. 21, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Boosting staffing levels at nursing homes could improve the health of residents, a new study says.

Incentivizing high nursing home staffing levels in the U.S. could result in 6,142 fewer hospitalizations each year, according to a study published Jan. 16 in JAMA Health Forum.  The study was ...

Dutch long-term care (LTC) reform helped promote aging-in-place to stabilize nursing home admissions but also increased nursing home waiting lists among older adults with dementia. That is according ...

SNF capacity drops post-pandemic by 5% nationwide, linked to staffing shortages and affecting hospital discharge outcomes, per JAMA study.

Iowa lawmakers moved multiple bills out of subcommittee Wednesday determining residency requirements for the nursing and law ...

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With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new ...

This case-control study found that a Medicaid policy that incentivized high nursing home staffing levels was associated with modest improvement in some dimensions of patient health. However, even ...

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The newly released 2025 Annual Workforce Report from the Florida Hospital Association (FHA) shows hospitals have added nearly ...

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