Senators Sound Alarm on Voter Intimidation in Nursing Homes – Mother Jones

The new guidance removes suggestions of specific ways nursing home staff can help residents vote—providing transportation to polling places, for example—and instead threatens staff with fraud investigations if they “engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/senators-sound-alarm-on-voter-intimidation-in-nursing-homes/

 

Florida’s Nursing Homes Are Bracing for Life Without Haitian TPS Workers – Mother Jones

“Florida is home to one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing older adult populations, and demand for long-term care services continues to increase each year,” the letter reads. It describes “an exceptionally competitive labor market,” meaning that finding qualified workers has been challenging. “Any significant reduction in the available workforce would make it more difficult to serve current and new residents, causing a ripple effect that could overwhelm our local hospitals and the entire healthcare system.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/floridas-nursing-homes-are-bracing-for-life-without-haitian-tps-workers/

 

Joseph Schwartz, Nursing Home Owner Pardoned by Trump, Owes Patient Families Millions — ProPublica

The families of some patients in Schwartz's nursing homes have been awarded millions of dollars from lawsuits. But they haven't been able to collect from him…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients

 

Nursing homes face safety risks as RN rule is repealed

This repeal is a dangerous one. And it should make every family pay closer attention. Even if the federal government no longer is.…

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5662282-weakening-elder-care-standards/

 

 

 

Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bc6sMzf4TN0.

 

Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KxY1lIHCbYI

 

Trump immigration crackdown is hitting nursing home staffs

The White House immigration crackdown is hitting the long-term healthcare industry, as nursing homes and care providers lose foreign-born employees and struggle to hire. 

Why it matters: These folks care for the disabled and for the country's fast-growing elderly population, and they're already in short supply.…

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/trump-immigration-nursing-homes

 

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers | US Medicare | The Guardian

In several cases identified by the Guardian, nursing home residents who needed immediate hospital care under the program failed to receive it, after interventions from UnitedHealth staffers. At least one lived with permanent brain damage following his delayed transfer, according to a confidential nursing home incident log, recordings and photo evidence…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers 

 

Court tosses Biden nursing home staffing standard

Nursing homes have plenty of failures when it comes to staffing, infection control and oversight, Kacsmaryk's memo vacating the rule states. 

 But while the policy was "rooted in laudable goals," it goes beyond the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' authority, he wrote…

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/biden-nursing-home-staffing-struck 

 

Biden administration imposes first-ever staff minimum for nursing homes - The Washington Post

The Biden administration set a first-ever minimum staffing rule for nursing homes Monday, making good on the president's promise more than two years ago to seek improvements in care for the nation's 1.2 million nursing home residents. 

The final rule, proposed in September, requires a registered nurse to be on-site in every skilled nursing facility for 24 hours a day, seven days a week...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/22/nursing-home-staff-minimum/

Profits over patients: For-profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets

The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors filed their survey report of the Kentucky facility on July 3, 2021. 

 Residents wandered the halls in a facility that can house up to 250 people, yelling at each other and stealing blankets. One resident beat a roommate with a stick, causing bruising and skin tears. Another was found in bed with a broken finger and a bloody forehead gash. That person was allowed to roam and enter the beds of other residents. In another case, there was sexual touching in the dayroom between residents, according to the report.  

Meals were served from filthy meal carts on plastic foam trays, and residents struggled to cut their food with dull plastic cutlery. Broken tiles lined showers, and a mysterious black gunk marred the floors. The director of housekeeping reported that the dining room was unsanitary. Overall, there was a critical lack of training, staff and supervision...

https://theconversation.com/profits-over-patients-for-profit-nursing-home-chains-are-draining-resources-from-care-while-shifting-huge-sums-to-owners-pockets-225954

US nursing home workers face ‘catastrophic crisis’ of understaffing

The Biden administration and labor groups are hoping for change. The US Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a rule to implement minimum staffing standards in long-term care facilities, with the public comment period ending on 6 November. If implemented, it would be the first ever minimum federal staffing standard for nursing homes that care for 1.2 million people. 

Under the proposed rule, CMS estimates 75% of facilities would have to improve staffing in their facilities. The rule requires nursing homes provide residents with a minimum of 0.55 hours of care from a registered nurse per resident per day and 2.45 hours of care from a nurse aide per resident every day… 

"Our country's long-term care system is in the midst of a catastrophic crisis, and nursing home workers and residents have suffered unspeakable consequences…"

… The nursing home industry is a multi-billion dollar industry with about 70% of nursing homes operating as for-profit facilities. In recent years private equity firms have increased their ownership or stake in nursing homes, with research demonstrating private equity ownership results in worse health outcomes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/07/us-nursing-home-workers-face-catastrophic-crisis-understaffing

Biden rule sets nursing home staff minimums - The Washington Post

The Biden administration released a proposed rule after decades of complaints about poor care…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/01/nursing-home-staff-minimum/

Battle brewing over Biden’s nursing home staffing requirements | The Hill

"You don't have a staff shortage, you've got a good job shortage. You have to pay these people, have to provide them support," said Mark Miller, Washington, D.C.'s, long-term care ombudsman. 

"There are people out there that want to work," Smetanka added. "It's just right now they're not wanting to work in nursing homes." …

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4144557-battle-brewing-over-bidens-nursing-home-staffing-requirements/

Boundless (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Our guest this week is Dr. Christine Henneberg, author of the book Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother. FFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence describes some first-amendment legal victories she was involved in, and describes the problems nonreligious seniors have while living in religious nursing homes. After reporting state/church news around the country, we hear the freethinking singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell perform "Both Sides Now."

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/42017-freethought-radio-march-2-2023

Long-Term Care: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver explains the industry behind nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and why long-term care needs fixing.
https://youtu.be/2xlol-SNQRU

For-profit nursing homes are understaffed by design — Quartz

...Although the company received $665 million in state and federal grants and loans in 2020, it didn't increase its hiring, despite severe staffing shortages during the most acute weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic...

https://qz.com/1987472/for-profit-nursing-homes-are-understaffed-by-design/

Nursing homes pursue higher payments for extra services, leaving them vulnerable during the pandemic - The Washington Post

The fee-for-service system misses important priorities and practically invites fraud.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/27/nursing-home-incentives/

‘They Just Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents - NYTimes

Nursing homes across the country are kicking out old and disabled residents and sending them to homeless shelters and rundown motels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/business/nursing-homes-evictions-discharges-coronavirus.html

Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years. Now, They’re Coronavirus Hot Spots. — ProPublica

The long-term care industry resisted a federal mandate to plan for disasters including pandemics. About 43% of nursing homes have been caught violating the requirement, including facilities that have now had deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nursing-homes-fought-federal-emergency-plan-requirements-for-years-now-theyre-coronavirus-hot-spots