Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is leading a group of 18 attorneys general opposing a federal agency plan to revise a rule prohibiting pre-dispute binding arbitration clauses in long-term care contracts. The revisions would allow such arbitration requirements. Frosh and the ...

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The real value of electronic health records, experts say, is that they enable data-mining, which can help optimize patient care.

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Nursing homes and post-acute health facilities that don't use electronic health records are going to get left behind, health experts say.

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About 50 workers at Fayette Health & Rehabilitation Center in Baltimore are beginning a 24-hour strike Thursday morning to protest the most recent contract proposal from the nursing home’s management.

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When all of the procedural information was finished — when a bed-ridden James R. Gilmore was released from prison Wednesday after serving nearly 39 years for killing his wife — his lawyer turned to him.

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HAGERSTOWN — The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says it has revoked the license of a Boonsboro assisted-living center where an 84-year-old Alzheimer’s patient was badly hurt in a fall through an unfinished floor. The agency announced the ...

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A nursing home administrator was awarded $253,340 in lost wages and damages after a federal judge found she was fired in violation of the federal Family Medical Leave Act, or FMLA.

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While most of the 25,000 residents living in Maryland’s 234 nursing homes would prefer to receive services at home, the overwhelming majority languish in institutions. That’s largely because they don’t know their options.   But thanks to The SunShine Folk, ...

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For Americans over the age of 50, the time to consider long-term care coverage is now. Whether to buy it is a separate question that’s as individual as you are. Long-term care insurance (LTC) is generally recommended to people who ...

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No one wants to see someone they love in a nursing home. That’s why many older Americans and their families would opt for home-based care whether it’s for a temporary illness or disability, or end-of-life. Yet the best time to ...

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