Healthcare and Caregiving News

As covid-19 cases rise again in nursing homes, a few states have begun requiring visitors to present proof that they’re...

Roughly 41% of Black Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2019 were enrolled in hospice, compared with 54% of white patients.

California’s sweeping new program to buy prescription drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that...

For decades, Americans have been urged to fill out documents specifying their end-of-life wishes. Now, experts say those efforts should...

It’s rare to hear people talk about a nursing home the way they talk about this 40-bed facility in Nevada,...

Already buckling from an exodus of pandemic-weary health care workers, nursing homes are losing entry-level nurses, dietary aides and housekeepers drawn to...

Attracting new pharmacists to independent drugstores, especially to rural settings, is difficult. More communities may lose their only drugstore.

Covid-19’s unrelenting spread exposed deep, systemic problems with the quality of care — or lack thereof — at nursing homes...

Starting in January, California will embark on an ambitious experiment to control asthma in its most vulnerable patients. Medi-Cal will...

In West Virginia, one of the most heavily Republican states in the country, oral health advocates and progressives say it’s...