1.   And in four states, federal officials said, virtually no nursing homes were cited for serious deficiencies last year.

2.   He left to start nonprofit companies that operate nursing homes for the severely handicapped and housing for the handicapped or elderly.

3.   Information in the survey was culled from data regularly submitted by nursing homes to obtain Medicare reimbursement from the government.

4.   Integrated plans to convert the LPIMC nursing homes to subacute centers, he said.

5.   Patients whose care is costly sometimes bounce back and forth between hospitals and nursing homes, as officials try to shift costs from one program to the other.

6.   Similar accounts of shoddy care circulate in retirement villages and nursing homes, where many people have become attached to their longtime doctors.

7.   FDA allows only hospitals and nursing homes to continue using it for a handful of patients.

8.   Many of the elderly stricken by the heat were living in privately run nursing homes that lacked air conditioning, Health Minister Christos Solomis said.