National Nursing Home Inspection Backlog Threatens the Safety of over a Million Residents
Nursing Home Inspection Backlog Threatens the Safety of over a Million Residents Federal law requires nursing home inspections to be conducted at least every 15 months to uphold care standards and help combat nursing home malpractice and regretful circumstances that...
Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes
Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes: With the increased number of residents with dementia in New Jersey nursing homes corresponds a growth in occurrences of resident-on-resident nursing home abuse. According to a NJ Advance Media...
Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Spreading in Nursing Homes
Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Spreading in Nursing Homes Lax infection prevention efforts and even blatant refusal to reveal the positive status of patients when transferring them between healthcare facilities are among the instances of nursing home malpractice...
Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents
Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents: New legislation has been introduced to prevent New Jersey nursing homes, or any entities associated with these homes, from managing residents’ financial affairs without a...
Biden Administration Calls for Transparency in Nursing Home Ownership and Operation
Biden Administration Calls for Transparency in Nursing Home Ownership and Operation: Research reveals that for-profit and private equity ownership of nursing homes is connected with increased nursing home malpractice and wrongful death. According to a USA Today...
Severely Deficient Pennsylvania Nursing Home Causes Serious Harm to Multiple Residents
Pennsylvania Nursing Home Causes Serious Harm to Multiple Residents due to Severe Deficiency: A nursing home malpractice lawsuit filed in December of last year against a Pennsylvania nursing home is indicative of a long pattern of harm committed by that facility, says...
Resident Bleeds to Death at Iowa Nursing Home with a Record of Violations
Resident Bleeds to Death at Iowa Nursing Home with a Record of Violations: Arbor Court, a one-star Iowa care facility, potentially faces fines from the federal government for the latest in a series of nursing home malpractice incidents. An inspection follows after a...
Two New Jersey Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults
Two Dementia Patients Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults in New Jersey Nursing Home: Investigations are underway at two nursing homes in Central Jersey where violent resident-on-resident attacks led to the deaths of two 91-year-olds in January, says an article on...
Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use
Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use: CMS has announced it will conduct investigations into certain nursing homes in an effort to uncover illegitimate schizophrenia diagnoses and any accompanying inappropriate...
Head of troubled N.J. Veterans Home Dismissed in Wake of Severe Violations
Head of Troubled N.J. Veterans Home Dismissed: The CEO of a New Jersey veterans home that has had persistent troubles since the onslaught of the pandemic has been dismissed, says an article on northjersey.com. CEO Jennifer Causer is out of her job at Memorial Home at...
New York Attorney General Sues Nursing Home for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect
Nursing Home Sued for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect: The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Cold Spring Hills diverted of tens of millions of dollars of government funding while engaging in repeated incidents of nursing home malpractice and slashing staffing to...
Facing Impending Winter COVID Wave, Thousands of Pennsylvania Nursing Home Residents Have Not Received Their Vaccine Boosters
Nursing Home Residents Yet to Receive Vaccine Boosters According to a recent Philadelphia Inquirer article, tens of thousands of Pennsylvania nursing home residents are behind on their COVID-19 booster shots. While the latest bivalent booster shot was developed to...