The Iowa nursing home, Bethany Life Care Center in Story City, has been fined $325 for failing to protect residents of their facility from abuse of recurring “sexual advances” made by a female resident, according to the Iowa Dispatch. According to state inspection reports, on April 20, 2025, the staff at Bethany Life Care Center
CMS has frozen all updates to the Nursing Home Care Compare website, which includes star ratings, inspection results, and other quality data. The pause began in late July 2025 as the agency transitioned its survey and certification data to the new cloud-based iQIES platform. This move is allegedly designed to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and
Skilled Nursing News had an article on updated long-term care facility standards to prevent future cases of neglect that are far too common. These new regulations apply when facility inspections or “surveys” take place. Such surveys may be difficult for facilities to prepare for, as the standards are quite detailed with over 900 pages long.
Two Alzheimer’s drugs, donanemab (Kisunla) and lecanemab (Leqembi) appear to hold real promise in slowing the progression of the Alzheimer’s disease. Both drugs are designed for individuals in the early stages of the disease, and work by reducing amyloid plaques (or abnormal protein build-ups in the brain that are linked to the disease.) Donanemab, a
North Carolina Health News reported that due to the high costs and restrictive nature of nursing home facilities, many seniors and people with disabilities are forced to seek care at the more affordable and unregulated Multi-unit Assisted Housing with Services, or MUAHS of Wilson County, NC. These MUAHS are intended to act as independent living
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