nursing homes

The process can be daunting. Many facilities are understaffed and the worker shortages have gotten worse since the pandemic. This video offers tips on what to look for.

"What's Health" host Dr. Joe Sirven highlights two critical issues in health care that are common yet often overlooked.

Unfortunately, homes vary greatly in quality, and many don’t have enough nurses and aides to give residents the care they need. Here are some questions to answer if you are looking.

Analysis: Florida is among the states that sought to improve quality of care by mandating the highest minimum staffing hours per resident. But records reveal that a law was no guarantee of improvement.

The chief requirement: Nursing homes must have enough staff to provide each patient with 3.48 hours of direct care every day. Nursing home companies have raised concerns the mandate will cause financial strains.

The program has been around for decades. But in the past few years, new PACE centers have been opening around Florida, including many that are in the middle of the approval process.

A sedative shouldn’t be the first thing tried to help people with dementia who exhibit distressing behaviors. A new website is a comprehensive, free resource that offers guidance to caregivers.

More than 172,000 nursing home residents died of covid. In lawsuits, some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety measures or told that COVID wasn’t a danger in their facilities.

The staffing regulation was disparaged by the industry as unattainable. Patient advocates say it doesn’t go far enough. Labor unions welcomed the requirement.

The Florida Health Care Association counters by saying those trends are a function of the post-COVID workforce environment and not the result of efforts to "modernize staffing standards."