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An investigation by the Department of Attorney General’s Sentinel Project has led to its first criminal case — a felony charge against a nurse for practicing in a nursing home…

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 40, the Health Care Quality Surcharge Act Changes, which results in millions of additional state and federal dollars flowing to New Mexico nursing…

One of Iowa’s biggest nursing home chains, now mired in bankruptcy, allegedly owes taxpayers more than $1 million in unpaid fines due to poor quality resident care, the federal government…

Albuquerque-AMG Specialty Hospital, LLC and Acadiana Manage­ment Group, LLC, operating AMG Specialty Hospital in Albuquerque, NM, will pay $82,481 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought…

Two Winston-Salem women were convicted Monday of inciting two female residents at an assisted-living facility to fight each other in 2019. The fight was recorded and shared with others.

Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 290, which updates and clarifies timeframes for requiring covered workers at healthcare facilities and high-risk congregate settings to be up to date with…

Although New York’s statewide indoor mask mandate ended Feb. 10, 2022, New York employers must continue to implement airborne infectious disease exposure prevention plans, pursuant to the New York Health…

Geriatric & Adult Psychiatry, LLC, (“GAP”) and its owner, Alan Siegal, M.D., have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments to resolve allegations that they…

A Cayce assisted living facility where a resident died last week was understaffed and did not give residents medication or breakfast the morning of Feb. 18, when a 69-year-old resident…