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...
Should You File a Lawsuit if a Healthcare Facilities Discriminate Against You? I’m Wendy York from the York Law Firm in Sacramento. Discrimination against people for any reason is wrong and illegal. People frequently call me with stories of obvious and blatant...
Immunity for Nursing Homes COVID-19 is a global disaster, the scale and extent of which is unprecedented in most of our lifetimes, with the possible exception of those few people alive today who survived the 1918 Flu Pandemic. That said, it’s not as if the need to...
Coronavirus is no Excuse for Nursing Home Lapses The Washington Post last week reported that a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington was cited for multiple violations including failing to report an outbreak of COVID-19, for giving inadequate care to its residents...
Last week, the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR.ORG), issued a press release asking Governor Newsom to reverse a CDPH directive which stated: “SNFs shall not refuse to admit or readmit a resident based on their status as a suspected or confirmed...
An opinion columnist at Bloomberg published an article on April 6, 2020, in which he suggests that COVID-19 deaths worldwide are being underreported because they often don’t include deaths from residents at nursing homes. In France last week, 884 deaths in nursing...
You may have seen the news last week that 84 patients were evacuated from Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a facility in Riverside, CA, after employees failed to show up for two days in a row. The Riverside County Public Health Department ultimately...
We're all hurting from COVID-19. Unemployment is skyrocketing, businesses of all kinds are shut down, schools are closed, and our livesare topsy-turvy.Thankfully, of course, our Federal Government stepped in to protect those hardest hit by the crisis with a $2...