New Jersey lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that they said would make it easier to track how nursing homes spend the more than $4 billion in taxpayer funds they now receive annually. The Senate health committee passed legislation that would revise the state’s reporting requirements around financial operations and ownership structure at New Jersey’s roughly…
A warehouse in northern Hong Kong caught fire on Saturday, forcing more than 30 people including dozens of residents of a nearby nursing home to evacuate. Police received multiple calls about the fire breaking out in the warehouse on Ma Liu Shui San Tsuen’s Lung Ma Road in Sheung Shui at around 5.27pm. Firefighters extinguished…
Jason Barrett visits his 94-year-old grandmother, Ruth Raney, at the Martinsburg Healthcare Center in West Virginia as often as he can. Medicaid will soon be covering the cost of Raney’s care, putting her among the 77% of West Virginia nursing home residents — and 63% of nursing home residents nationwide — who rely on the…