Hundreds of aspiring nurse aides can start taking their certification exams in Spanish and Chinese next year, the start of a multilingual policy that advocates and lawmakers say will tackle a major ...

In the 2022 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, the National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality, nine recommendations were created to address the severe staffing ...

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A key House committee this week advanced several bills designed to ease nursing home hiring and ensure expanded access to telehealth for another two years. The Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024, as ...

We can debate tax policy. We can debate spending priorities. But protecting the elderly should not be a debate at all.

In mid-April 2020, as Covid-19 shutdowns and lockdowns were being put in place across the U.S., my grandmother’s health started to decline. With so many unknowns, the assisted living facility where ...

In a pandemic, it's not surprising that health care jobs would be plentiful, as demand for services continues to rise. But our region's hospitals have a lot of openings for health care workers. A lot.

The number of certified nursing assistants in Brazos County has dropped dramatically over the past decade, creating ...

Many health systems with virtual nursing programs say these remote care models have strong ROI — but few share specific wins and results. Bedside nurses have shared mixed reviews on virtual nursing.

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A move by the Trump administration to exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees for student loan purposes could ...