May 8, 2026 – The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) today released new, facility-level data on antipsychotic (AP) drugging in U.S. nursing homes, highlighting both the continuing prevalence of antipsychotic use and disturbing limitations in the publicly available federal data. US AP Drugging Q4 2025
Antipsychotic drugs are powerful medications associated with […]
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December 20, 2022 – More than one million people live in US nursing homes and each week, one in five of them are given dangerous antipsychotic (AP) drugs. In most cases these drugs are administered without clinical justification. In 2012, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services […]
The NursingHome411 Podcast
U.S. health care is plagued by racism, and nowhere is that more evident than in the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes. Whether it’s COVID, care quality, or inappropriate drugging, research consistently shows significant disparities that impact Black nursing home residents.
On this episode of the NursingHome411 Podcast, Dr. Shekinah Fashaw-Walters – Assistant Professor at […]
U.S. health care is plagued by racism, and nowhere is that more evident than in the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes. Whether it’s COVID, care quality, or inappropriate drugging, research consistently shows significant disparities that impact Black nursing home residents.
On this episode, Dr. Shekinah Fashaw-Walters – Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and Fesler-Lampert Chair […]
