The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation's 4.2 million nurses, urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the current and unsustainable nurse staffing shortage facing our country a national crisis...

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice, which represents 80 nonprofit hospices, is welcoming an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee into private equity’s expanding role in the hospice industry...

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is investigating private equity interest in the home health and hospice provider Kindred at Home. The move reflects growing concern among lawmakers about the impact of private equity’s involvement in hospice...

Under the current Medicaid program, parents of a terminally-ill child with a diagnosis of only six months left to live have two options — search for more treatment or allow their child to die in the comfort of hospice...

Twelve people from Western New York were chosen to be the Buffalo 60 Strong ambassadors. The inspirational people are all between the ages of 60 and 69, and they are defying the odds...

The center will meet Brevard County’s growing population needs with quality in-patient hospice and respite care closer to home...

Pharmacies in Rensselaer County now have to provide a safe disposal product with each opioid prescription they dispense under a new local law that passed the County Legislature last month...

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee announced a probe of the private-equity ownership of
Kindred At Home—the nation’s largest home health provider and the nation’s second-largest
hospice provider...

It’s not uncommon for Dr. Santosh Kamath to encounter a patient who’s taking 15 or more medications...