How to Use nursing home in a Sentence

nursing home

noun
  • And the nursing home is just blocks from the scene here.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 16 May 2022
  • The closest the Golden Girls get to this is in the episode about the nursing home.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Cameron's in a nursing home, and Ferris comes and breaks him out!
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The Prairie View nursing home in Sanborn, Iowa, is one of them.
    — Tony Leys, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Athena still owns 14 nursing homes, down from 22 a year ago.
    — Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
  • Yet many of them have been stuck at nursing homes for more than three years.
    — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
  • My 98-year-old mother has spent the last eight years in a nursing home.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Then, in 2021, Jeanne tracked Stephen down to a nursing home in Chicago and made amends.
    — Nick Maslow, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Which states have the biggest gap in nursing home staffing compared to the new rules?
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • That’s why the woman had to be placed in a nursing home — her younger son was no longer around to help her.
    — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • One commenter said the nursing home wouldn’t even want the flowers.
    — Colson Thayer, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But a few nights later, on that same couch in the nursing home lobby, there was Scout.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Papa died just a few years prior to my stint at the nursing home.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 30 Nov. 2022
  • So all nursing home staff have to be fully vexed by next.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The United States spends more than $90 billion a year on nursing home stays.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • What’s the name of the nurse who works Saturday and Sunday nights at my mom’s nursing home?
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
  • There have been countless birthdays, from a 1-year-old to a 100-year-old at his nursing home.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But then her mother got sick and had to move into a nursing home.
    — Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In late June, Gustavson surprised him at the nursing home.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The nursing home is in a 140-year-old monastery next to a chapel surrounded by new apartments.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The nursing home was established as the County Poor Farm in 1831.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The decision kept her from being confined to a nursing home for the rest of her life.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The Pee Wee football coach lives in the same nursing home as his grandmother.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Putting her in a nursing home and just visiting her once a month—that would break my heart.
    — Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2023
  • So a lot of these donations came from big nursing homes.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The program covers more than 40% of all births in the country and nearly two-thirds of nursing home stays.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The town was down to a single hotel, a single store, a single nursing home.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Justina Worrell, 47, works part time as a kitchen helper in an Ohio nursing home.
    — David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In contrast, skilled nursing homes in particular are facing financial pressure due to low Medicaid reimbursement, and some have closed across the state, Schnepf emphasized.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025

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