Two days ago, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, released a report that helps explain why COVID-19 has devastated nursing homes across the United States. The GAO analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from...
The Coronavirus global pandemic is focusing bright light on the pre-existing lapses of skilled nursing facilities and demonstrating what happens when nursing home chains fail to follow infectious disease protocols leading to other victims of Nursing Home Neglect. ...
SYSTEMIC DEATH AT U.S. NURSING HOMES The Governor of New Mexico announced earlier this week that the state is partnering with a company called Genesis Healthcare, a for-profit chain that the U.S. Department of Justice called an “unscrupulous provider” with a record of...
The statistics are frightening and staggering. In California, an estimated 35% of the 3,500 deaths from COVID-19 so far this year were residents and staff in nursing homes and eldercare facilities. Nationwide, the numbers are equally grim. The New York Times reports...
The Washington Post reports that a startling 40% of the 650 nursing homes nationwide that have cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) were previously cited for violating infection control standards. Frankly, no one should be all that surprised. The awful...
Lobbyists for big nursing home chains are working overtime right now to persuade state legislators that their clients, like everyone else in this coronavirus pandemic, need a bailout. They want a “Get out of Jail Free” card. These nursing home chains are making a...
By now, we all know that nursing homes are ground zero for the COVID-19 global pandemic, not just because the elderly are at higher risk for dying from the infection, but also because the virus exposed pre-existing nursing home chain's business practices of staff...
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Are nursing homes under-reporting COVID-19 cases and deaths? Many believe they are. As it stands, at least two out of five COVID-19 deaths in California are linked to nursing homes. In a review of weeks of nursing home COVID-19 data, CBS13 found...
An article published on May 4, 2020, in USA Today reports that the Federal Government is considering relaxing infection controls in US nursing homes. At issue is a regulation change being proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that would...
I’m Wendy York from the York Law Firm in Sacramento. A classic sign of polypharmacy is the use of drugs as a “chemical restraint.” How can you tell? You’ll see a nursing home resident in a hallway with their head cocked to the side, their mouth open and drooling, and...