New York Times Report – How Nursing Homes Can Game The System A recent article by the New York Times examines the five-star rating system for nursing homes and exposes how nursing homes can game the system. Including Rosewood Post Acute Rehabilitation, a North...
Eldercare Facility Paid Millions for Medicaid Fraud An investigation, which included several undercover visits by a healthy and vibrant senior working on behalf of the New York Attorney General’s Office, revealed that an adult day health care facility was not...
Elderly Patients Who are Given Anti-Psychotic Medications are at a Greater Risk of Acute Kidney Injury A Message To Nursing Homes to Reduce Anti-Psychotic Drugs A Message To Nursing Homes to Reduce Anti-Psychotic Drugs – The Annals of Internal Medicine published a recent report about a study that concludes that there are safety concerns about the use of antipsychotic drugs…
$750 Million For Medicare Reimbursements To Nursing Homes The long term care industry (nursing home industry) is high fiving each other because they successfully negotiated another $750 Million pay increase in 2015 from Medicare. This is the same industry that in the...
Bill AB1572 Strengthens The Rights Of Residential Care Facility Residents AB1572 was just signed into law by Governor Brown. AB1572 strengthens the rights of RCFE residents and their families to form resident and family councils. Resident and family councils are a...
In the latest nursing home death case, the Attorney General’s Office and the State Department of Health are investigating the death of a 71 year old woman in the ventilator unit at Medford Nursing Home where employees are already facing criminal charges in the death...
Ensign Group, a parent company that owns skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation care facilities, home healthcare, hospice and assisted living facilities throughout California and other states, announced that it has agreed to purchase Keiro Senior Health Care’s...
Nursing Home Employee Allegedly Punches 81-Year-Old Resident Nursing Home Employee Allegedly Punches 81-Year-Old Resident - The nursing home industry is making the news again and the latest story is evidence of a bigger problem: Nursing homes being understaffed for...
Drugs and Medication Errors – An Epidemic Problem in Nursing Homes Recent news out of Florida cited to the fact that in the past three years, 43% of nursing homes have been cited for deficiencies directly or indirectly related to medication errors according to the...
Three Women Died Entrapped Between Mattress and Bed Handles Found in Nursing Homes Bed handles Found in Nursing Homes – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) and Bedhandles, Inc. announced the voluntary recall of over 110,000 adult portable bedhandles used in beds in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This recall was announced after three elderly women died after…