Higher education is leading the charge in a region-wide effort to address a projected critical shortage of nurses in southern ...

PACE lets seniors stay out of nursing homes and still receive a variety of health and home services. Too few people know ...

Brier Oak has received three AA citations for patient deaths since late 2022. State regulations require authorities to suspend or revoke the licenses of any facilities that get two AA citations within ...

SACRAMENTO — About 1 in 8 Californians who have died of COVID-19 lived in a nursing home. They were among the state’s most frail residents: nearly 9,400 mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts and ...

The pandemic has highlighted poor care in America's nursing homes, where nearly 175,000 people have died of COVID-19 — a third of all deaths in the country. Cynthia Carrillo learned about this obscure ...

Lorena Burkett, a registered nurse at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, says the state’s nursing shortage is rooted in heavy workloads that dissuade young people from entering the field and drive ...

California, like much of the nation, is not producing enough nurses working at bedsides to meet the needs of an aging and diverse population, fueling a workforce crunch that risks endangering quality ...

Imperfect Paradise presents LAist Investigates: The Truth Inside California's Nursing Homes Hyde Park Healthcare Center is a one-story building with a pink stucco and flagstone facade about 10 miles ...

California's health care industry is emerging as one of the state's strongest on-ramps to the middle class for workers without a bachelor's degree, but a sweeping report finds that many would-be ...

The 93-year-old dementia patient was getting anxious in her wheelchair. The woman, a resident of the Californian-Pasadena nursing home, wanted to see her husband but had forgotten he was at a nearby ...