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CMS flags nursing homes with serious or repeated abuse citations in their annual inspections—putting your reputation and Star Ratings at risk.

Older adults often move into nursing homes to have their health and rehabilitation needs met in comfortable living environments rather than choose in-home health services. However, many nursing homes nationwide and in Missouri fail to maintain professional standards,...

LIBERTY, Mo. — Liberty Health and Wellness residents have to relocate to new nursing facilities. Liberty Health and Wellness will lose its agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services as a skilled nursing facility in the Medicaid program effective March...

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — Wednesday will mark a week since some seniors at an apartment complex in Lee's Summit had a permanent place to live. A pipe burst and flooded several floors at Wilshire Hills I near 83rd St. and Northeast Manhattan Drive. According to an incident...

For seniors and their loved ones, choosing a nursing home in the Kansas City area can be a big — and pricey — decision. Of Missouri’s over a thousand nursing homes, assisted living facilities and long-term care facilities, approximately one in seven received a one...

Missouri nursing homes rank among the worst in the country for the amount of care provided to residents, and ongoing staffing shortages may be adding to the problem and putting residents' health and safety at risk.

The company that runs Liberty Health and Wellness is being sued in federal court for not paying about $3.5 million in unpaid rent, fees and interest.