SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is revamping how it rewards nursing homes to get them to improve patient care. Rather than limit bonuses to top-performing facilities,
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is revamping how it rewards nursing homes to get them to improve patient care. Rather than limit bonuses to top-performing facilities,
Read moreSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Driving through the industrial outskirts of Sacramento, a stretch of warehouses, wholesale suppliers, truck centers, and auto repair shops northeast of downtown,
Read moreAmy Walter, a leader in information technology at Washington University for the past eight years, has been named associate vice chancellor and deputy chief information
Read moreWAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for
Read moreWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the pharmaceutical company Eisai Co. Ltd., headquartered in Japan, have formed a research collaboration aimed at
Read moreSarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond
Read moreEconomic insecurity is upending the lives of millions of older adults as soaring housing costs and inflation diminish the value of fixed incomes. Across the
Read more[Editor’s note: KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.] A California law that took effect in July requires health plans to offer timely follow-up appointments
Read moreEight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget
Read moreThe Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents
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