The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.
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For the first time ever, nursing homes may soon have to guarantee a registered nurse is working 24/7 in every facility. -
Elected officials are (almost) the oldest they have ever been in Washington which is causing discussions over what it means to be fit for office. -
A study commissioned by the government to recommend minimum staffing levels at nursing homes drew no conclusions. And that means Biden's pledge to set those minimums may come to far less than hoped. -
Officials and volunteers say addressing mental health needs and trauma will likely take years. -
Since the deaths in The Gambia, there have been additional charges that medicines made in India were contaminated and led to sickness. What has happened to the companies involved? -
A dead American Crow found in La Mesa tested positive for West Nile virus, which prompted county environmental health officials to remind people to protect themselves from mosquitoes that can transmit the virus to people. -
New COVID variants are fueling hospitalizations and prompting some schools and hospitals to reinstate mask mandates. Others are considering or ruling out the possibility, leaving it up to individuals. -
Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump's major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. -
The scale of a scam to recruit Native Americans into fake treatment for substance in Phoenix and bill the government fraudulently is now emerging. It's huge. -
The El Centro Regional Center and Pioneers Memorial in Brawley had requested more in state funding.
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