nursing homes

Health News Florida has learned that Florida has a new Long-Term Care Ombudsman, a position that has been vacant for almost a year.

The weather doesn’t care that there’s a pandemic. A tropical storm is forecast to possibly affect South Florida over the weekend.How are nursing homes and…

Enforcement of rules protecting nursing home residents from antipsychotic drugs has declined during the Trump administration, according to a new report.

The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the risks older adults already face during the summer.

Florida nursing homes will receive rapid coronavirus testing machines from the federal government. The Department of Health and Human Services announced...

The Trump administration has announced plans to require certain nursing homes to test staff “and visitors” for COVID-19 once a week and opened the door to…

Florida has 19 COVID isolation centers , according to the Agency for Health Care Administration, or AHCA. These are nursing homes or long-term care...

Staff members at nursing facilities across the state that have agreed to care for long-term care residents with COVID-19 are beginning to test positive…

Aging advocates sent a letter to Florida U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott urging Congress to pass an additional coronavirus relief package for...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Mary Daniel of Jacksonville, FL about becoming a dishwasher for a memory care facility. It allows her to spend time with her husband as family visits have been restricted.