My Hanh (Theresa) Nguyen, PhD, is a board certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and an associate professor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most everyone agrees it can be very difficult — next to impossible, really — for Medi-Cal enrollees to snag a spot in a nursing home, especially if they’re transferring from their homes or assisted ...

Charlene Harrington, a UC San Francisco professor emerita, has researched nursing-home ownership for more that 30 years. “These (facilities) are micromanaged at the chain level,” Harrington said. “The ...

A California law signed Oct. 1 will require all nursing schools and programs to incorporate implicit bias training into their curriculum, and hospitals to implement evidence-based programs on the ...

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 ...

His paycheck was more than a week late, and by January, Kritsana Liamkrajang was growing more and more worried about the situation at the Legacy Healthcare and Rose Garden Healthcare nursing homes in ...

The California Department of Public Health, which has long been criticized for failing to properly regulate nursing homes, is now considering an overhaul of its inspection program that advocates say ...