Mount Sinai Chief Revenue Officer Debra Jaeger, MSN, RN, has found space for herself as a liaison between clinical and financial teams. In her first career transition, she worked for an insurance ...

A federal watchdog has issued its third 2025 report analyzing state oversight of background checks for nursing home employees, finding mixed results so far on compliance and enforcement. The latest ...

A federal probe found some New Jersey nursing homes did not complete background checks before employees started working, if ever. (Photo by Hal Brown for New Jersey Monitor) The New Jersey Department ...

New Jersey nursing homes are required to conduct criminal background checks before hiring employees who provide care for their residents. Not all do, a new federal report found. The inspector general ...

A bill that would require long-term care facilities to check if prospective residents have a criminal history or are on the sex offender registry before they are admitted drew some heated opposition ...

Nursing leaders are sorely lacking among the top managerial ranks at many skilled care operators, a new survey has found. Respondents noted that only about 46% of nursing facility and home health ...

The New Jersey Department of Health failed to ensure workers at some nursing homes underwent background checks needed to ensure they did not have criminal records that disqualified them from the job, ...

New Jersey regulators need to strengthen their oversight of background checks for nursing home employees after a federal audit published this month found deficiencies. The report by the federal ...