Post-Acute

An 83-year-old patient at Haverhill, Mass.-based Oxford Rehabilitation and Health Care Center allegedly beat his roommate to death with a walker Oct. 5, the Boston Herald reported. 

As part of the Trump administration's push to improve nursing home quality transparency, CMS is updating its Nursing Home Compare website to feature a new consumer alert icon next to nursing homes that have been cited for abuse, neglect or…

Many U.S. nursing homes fail to follow proper safe food handling guidelines, which could put elderly patients at risk of foodborne illnesses, according to an investigative report from the nonprofit news organization FairWarning that was published by NBC News.

Eleven residents were evacuated after a fire broke out at Augusta (Ga.) Villa Health and Rehabilitation Center Sept. 28, reports The Augusta Chronicle.

A nursing home resident from Parma, Ohio-based Broadview Multi-Care Center has been diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease, marking Cuyahoga County's second confirmed case this week, according to Cleveland.com.

Health officials are investigating a Legionnaires' case involving a former resident at a senior living facility in Strongsville, Ohio, according to NBC affiliate WKYC 3 News.

Health officials on Sept. 12 confirmed two additional Legionnaires' cases in the surrounding community of a Batavia, Ill.-based senior living home, which reported 12 cases in late August, according to the Daily Herald.

U.S. News & World Report is offering consumers data on more than 8,700 assisted living communities nationwide through a new assisted living directory.

Post-hospital spending for Medicare patients is consistently higher than that of private insurers, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities across Florida's Atlantic coast began preparing to move residents out of harm's way ahead of Hurricane Dorian on Sept. 3, according to The New York Times.