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The Kentucky Senate took aim Tuesday at overcoming a chronic nursing shortage by boosting enrollment in nursing schools and luring out-of-state nurses into the state’s workforce.

Nursing homes will be among the recipients of more than one million doses of Pfizer’s antiviral pills made available this month – that’s hundreds of thousands more doses than expected,…

President Joe Biden’s top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won’t be issued under a mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow…

This study suggests that RSV poses a greater risk than influenza to infants, while both are associated with substantial mortality among elderly individuals.

Use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is increasing, and may be accelerated with experience gained during the Coronavirus disease 2w019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

In an effort to keep state workers from entering his nursing home earlier this month, Sea View Retreat owner Stephen Comley Jr. padlocked the front gate and refused to allow…

A research team at the University of Kentucky has spent the past year collecting wastewater samples at six nursing homes in Kentucky, including three in Lexington.

Citing growing violence against healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and the past decade, state Republican lawmakers are introducing a bill to make threatening or attacking the workers a felony.

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear arguments in a lawsuit that sought to challenge Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health workers.

Nursing homes in Florida are closing wings and refusing patients because they don’t have enough staff to provide the required number of direct patient care required by state law.