Nursing homes will see a 3.2% increase in their Medicare Part A payments next fiscal year, CMS announced late Thursday.

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday.

Extreme rains and flooding across northern China have killed 60 people, more than half of them at a care home for the elderly in a suburb of Beijing, which has grappled with its deadliest flood ...