Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members.

STOCKTON - More than half of San Joaquin County's nursing home residents eligible for Medicare or Medi-Cal live in facilities considered below average in quality ratings released in December by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

River Park Health Care Center announced Friday that it will shut its doors in 30 days. The closure affects 36 residents at the 58-bed licensed nursing home in Nashville.

A nursing assistant at Lehigh Regional Medical Center was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for cruelty toward a child/abuse without great harm.

Associated Press - January 2, 2009 2:44 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Former Alabama Gov. Guy Hunt has improved enough to be moved to a private nursing facility in Birmingham.

BOSTON -- More affluent areas of Massachusetts tend to have higher quality nursing homes, according to an Associated Press review of federal data.

A RISE in frail nursing home patients going hungry and thirsty has forced tougher surveillance of the industry.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Former Alabama Gov. Guy Hunt has improved enough to be moved to a private nursing facility in Birmingham. A spokesman for Hunt's family, Mark McDaniel, said the 75-year-old former governor was moved from a Birmingham hospital Friday....

Donna Boatright, Associate Administrator and Chief Nursing Officer at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital, has been selected to receive an award from The Texas Organization of Nurse Executives (TONE).

A new website by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released ratings for skilled nursing facilities across the nation and two such facilities in Stoddard County received five-star...

San Jacinto College South's nursing program continues a tradition of excellence with news that students in a challenging and demanding field performed well on the state licensing exam.

Twenty years before Mary Brown needed a nursing home, she told her son where to put her when the time came: the Mary Lee DePugh Nursing Center in Hannibal Square.

A one-week intensive course offered January 5-9, 2009 at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, provides nurses those essential skills and knowledge needed to administer global relief.

Press Photos/Emily ZoladzHands are raised for exercise time Wednesday at Brookcrest Nursing Home in Grandville. GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP -- A Grandville nursing home could get more roomy if Sunset Association wins approval for 40 new beds just across the county line....

A Stillwater nursing home is facing a wrongful death suit that alleges it did not properly care for a resident with dementia who died of dehydration and pneumonia in January 2007.

The Knox County Nursing Home has been given the lowest possible rating by a new federal inspection system for nursing homes.

Oakhaven and Medford nursing centers in Darlington have each received a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service.

Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and...

Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies.

BOSTON and mdash; More affluent areas of Massachusetts tend to have higher quality nursing homes, according to an Associated Press review of federal data. The AP review of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data found the quality of nursing homes varies widely by region, but better care is often found in areas with higher income levels.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced that it had won a record £5,061,140 in compensation for members in 2008. The compensation was awarded for Personal Injury and Employment disputes.

North Dakota State College of Science practical nursing students graduating in May 2008 have earned a No. 1 ranking in North Dakota and tied for first in the United States among those taking the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nursing (NCLEX-PN).

The American Nurses Association (ANA) on behalf of the larger nursing community announced the release of a first of its kind study quantifying the economic value of nursing.

BOSTON — More affluent areas of Massachusetts tend to have higher quality nursing homes, according to an Associated Press review of federal statistics and other information.

Picking a nursing home is a sensitive job. Medicare has launched a new Web site, www. medicare. gov/NHCompare, to give consumers another tool to help them make a choice.You can type in a location and check out the ratings for the nursing homes, based on a five-star ranking system. The data behind the stars has been available for years, but Medicare hopes the stars make it easier for consumers to ...

In the two weeks since the federal government launched a new rating system for nursing homes, officials of local facilities who have studied it say the ratings need to change.

Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook restrict photos of nursing babies, highlighting the struggle to police a diverse  membership.

The residents at Woodland Manor nursing home in Arnold experienced a little pre-holiday excitement last week when staff members noticed smoke in one of the building’s wings.

There are 1.6 million nursing home residents in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control survey released in 2002. The average stay for a resident is 892 days, or 2.4 years. That average stay, at $258 per day in Cleveland, can cost over $230,000.

The quality of nursing home care you receive in Massachusetts may depend on the income level where you live.