Altoona Mirror: On duty: Hollidaysburg Veterans Home marks National Skilled Nursing Care Week with visit by Nurse Honor Guard
On duty: Hollidaysburg Veterans Home marks National Skilled Nursing Care Week with visit by Nurse Honor Guard
McKnight's Long-Term Care News: New clinical trial studying expanded skilled nursing care in the home
A first-of-its-kind clinical trial will investigate the feasibility of providing post-acute skilled nursing facility care to patients in their home as a way to help alleviate the skilled nursing ...
Medicare Part A may cover short-term skilled nursing care in a nursing home if specific requirements are met, such as a qualifying hospital stay and the need for daily skilled nursing care. Medicare ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News: Nurse practitioners improve skilled nursing’s dementia care outcomes, but regulatory barriers remain: study
Nurse practitioners have become an increasingly integral part of nursing home care over the last decade, and rightfully so, researchers have found. NPs’ involvement can significantly improve ...
Nurse practitioners improve skilled nursing’s dementia care outcomes, but regulatory barriers remain: study
Q. My father is an 82-year-old Korean War veteran and military retiree. He is in a skilled nursing home but has exhausted his Medicare coverage. He's very ill, with four compression fractures, liver ...
Retired LPN Gretchen Eardley (left) embraces Hollidaysburg Veterans Home resident Phyllis Woodring during a visit Wednesday by the Central Pennsylvania Nurse Honor Guard to mark National Skilled ...
WTOP: Home Health Care vs. Nursing Homes: 2026 Costs, Levels of Care & Comparison
More than 1 million people receive care in a nursing home each day, according to the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). Yet, if you ask most ...