Nursing Homes


A clear goal of the new health care reform law: increased access to home-based care.
Health overhaul: Immediate change, long term steps
WASHINGTON - When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law in 1965, seniors got their health insurance cards less than a year later.

WATERBURY, Conn. - Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBeneditto from the home she's had for more than six decades.

CHICAGO - The owners of a troubled Chicago nursing home say they want to sell or lease the building to a nonprofit that could run it as a mental illness treatment center - a move quickly criticized by advocates of supportive housing.

COVINGTON, Ky. - Omnicare Inc., which dispenses drugs to nursing homes and long-term care facilities, said Thursday its profit almost tripled in the fourth quarter after it resolved allegations it paid kickbacks to nursing homes, and received money for buying and recommending drugs.
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