Betty Smith, a 96-year-old great grandmother who lives in New Jersey, is mostly unable to leave her apartment, but not unhappy. “I love my little apartment,” she said. “I love it just as much today as ...

BYRON, Minn. — A local nurse practitioner is bringing together a modern health care format and an old-fashioned practice in his new urgent/sick care venture, My Home NP. Kevin Switalski launched his ...

One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan. Programs ...

Little is known about the characteristics of the workforce providing home-based medical care for traditional (fee-for-service) Medicare beneficiaries. We found that the number of participating home ...

Home visits by a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient’s risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days ...

Workers younger than 65 with employer-sponsored health insurance dramatically shifted to nurse practitioners and physician assistants between 2012 and 2016 as visits to primary care physicians ...

Adding a nurse practitioner to a busy hospital staff can decrease unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits, according to a new study. Researchers found that the nurse practitioner reduced ED ...

PHILADELPHIA — When older patients are visited in the hospital by a nurse practitioner, rates of readmission in the 30 days after discharge can be reduced dramatically in this vulnerable population, ...

Because of workforce needs and demographic and chronic disease trends, nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are taking a larger role in the primary care of medically complex ...