Measures to Lock down Facilities Isolate the Elderly without Guarantee of Safety COVID-19 Nursing Home Care Challenges As reports of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus inside American nursing homes continue to make headlines, facilities across the nation are now...
Discovered unable to pay, thousands of elderly and disabled nursing home residents across the nation have been sent packing. Nursing Homes Evicting Elderly Poor – Illegally According to a recent NBC News article, certain American nursing homes are discharging poorer...
Patients and Families can make informed choices in selecting a nursing home thanks to a new level of transparency. Trump Admin Nursing Home Data Increases Transparency A consumer alert icon, shown above, will appear on the CMS Nursing Home Compare site, making it...
Short Funds and Mismanagement Result in Neglect, Displacement of Elderly Residents Nursing Home Chain Collapses In a report last week, NBC News revealed details about its investigation that a nursing home chain collapses. It was one that grew at a precipitous rate...
Lack of Regulation Puts Nursing Home Resident Safety at Stake HUD-backed Nursing Homes & Neglect – Do they promote it? According to a June report by The New York Times, several of this country’s most poorly-run nursing homes have mortgages insured against...
The Dangerous—and Sometimes Deadly— Practice of False Charting The Less Visible Side of Elder Abuse Medical charting—the regular logging of a patient’s condition and treatment—is a fundamental element of resident care in nursing homes. Accurate patient records not...
