Nursing Homes

The Senate version of the state budget includes more funding for public education.

The closure of several local nursing homes is not only affecting residents and workers, but could affect voters, too.

Services at five area nursing homes will continue to be provided for another 60 days as they are being placed into temporary receivership.

More senior citizens in Massachusetts are turning to assisted living or living at home with assistance, and those choices are exacerbating problems in the nursing home industry.

Massachusetts health regulators are strengthening oversight of nursing homes by creating a unit to conduct unannounced inspections and promising to fine problem-plagued facilities. Public Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel told The Boston Globe that consumers will also have access to a new online system to file complaints and find more detailed information about nursing homes...

A newspaper reports that Massachusetts regulators rarely take action against nursing homes that use powerful anti-psychotic sedatives to control elderly residents.  The Boston Globe reported on Sunday that 27 homes were cited for unnecessary use of antipsychotics between 2009 and 2011...