Center for Medicare Advocacy, a watchdog group, is reporting that the nursing home industry is getting an extra $1.5 billion toward reimbursement, from Medicare next year. According to an article in Naples Daily News, nursing home advocates say this amount is clearly inflated and the windfall to skilled nursing facilities…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that protects the rights of nursing home residents to hold long-term care facilities accountable in court for negligence and abuse. According to this news report, the bi-partisan bill titled The Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2008 – is sponsored by…
A Vallejo nursing home staff’s negligence caused a resident to choke to death, state investigators ruled as they cited and fined the facility in connection with the incident. According to a news article in the Times-Herald the AA citation issued to Crestwood Manor skilled nursing facility carries a $100,000 penalty…
State officials slapped a $100,000 fine on a Hemet nursing home owned by Valley Health System in connection with the death of a resident, who died two days after suffering a head injury, the Riverside Press Enterprise reports. Hemet Valley Nursing Home received an AA citation, which is the most…
Current and former residents of 17 Los Angeles and Orange County skilled nursing homes settled for $2 million in a class-action lawsuit, which alleges that these nursing homes understaffed their facilities and did not provide proper training to their nursing staff, which resulted in poor quality care and negligence. According…
The family of a neglected elder in Orange County has filed a lawsuit against a Laguna Hills nursing home alleging negligence and understaffing by the nursing home owner, The Orange County Register reports. The family of 91-year-old Therese Sperry is suing Villa Valencia Health Care Center owned by Virginia-based Sunrise…
Unites States lawmakers are now taking a hard look at sex offenders in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, which has becoming a significant problem and an important component of the issue of nursing home abuse in this country. According to a recent article in USA Today, federal lawmakers are…
Exploitation by nursing homes is hitting an all-time high or an all-time low, whichever way you want to look at it. According to this in-depth report by the Wall Street Journal, nursing homes across the country are trying to evict frail and ill residents and replacing them with shorter term…
Seniors and their families these days are so anxious to get a spot in a nursing home that they are signing away their rights to sue over poor nursing home care in such facilities, according to an Associated Press news report. This trend has sparked a debate between law makers,…
A nursing home facility in Bakersfield was fined $100,000, the stiffest penalty imposed by the state Public Health Department, in connection with the death of a patient from adverse medication interactions. According to an article in the Bakersfield Californian, the patient’s death occurred when the nursing home was run by…