Strong clinical workforce protects against functional decline in nursing homes, review finds
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 17, 2022
“Dramatic” yearly functional decline up to 51% among nursing home residents may be alleviated by a strong workforce and the onsite presence of geriatricians, a new study finds.
Nursing home hospice provider kept patients in hospice for years, overbilled for their care, prosecutors...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 28, 2014
An Illinois-based hospice provider overbilled Medicare and Medicaid by inappropriately designating nursing home residents as hospice patients, sometimes for years, according to federal charges announced...
Opposition to Medicare cuts grows in Senate
Jul 29, 2008
Nearly half of the nation’s senators have voiced objections to proposed Medicare cuts of $770 million in fiscal year 2009, according to the American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality...
Deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak at nursing home puts disease back in spotlight
By
Joe Bush
Sep 16, 2022
Four deaths this summer at a Manhattan nursing home have put Legionnaire’s disease in the spotlight again.
Survivors of Pinelake nursing home shooting face ‘long healing process,’ head of North Carolina...
Mar 31, 2009
Staff members, families and residents of Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage, NC, are still in shock after a lone gunman went on a shooting rampage that left eight people dead and three injured at the...
When states get a golden goose, they usually feed it to the lions
Feb 21, 2014
As my dear mother used to say, it’s a rare cloud that doesn’t offer some kind of silver lining.
More deficiencies, fewer registered nurses at nursing homes owned by private equity, researchers find
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 05, 2014
Nursing homes under private equity ownership are cited for more deficiencies and have fewer registered nurses on staff than other for-profit facilities, according to recently published research findings.
Nursing homes owner disputes misappropriation charges as state launches receivership effort
By
Joe Bush
Nov 11, 2022
A Minnesota lawyer and nursing home president is defending his company against a receivership effort, following allegations that three facilities used residents’ personal funds for operating expenses.
Providers urged to remember COVID-19 tactics as dangerous flu season looms
By
Joe Bush
Oct 06, 2022
Influenza, once the respiratory scourge that nursing home residents and professionals feared the most each year before COVID-19 hit, should be back on providers’ radar in a big way, experts warn.
Federal court rules $1 billion nursing home case can proceed, ties alleged poor management to IL gubernatorial...
By
Tim Mullaney
May 09, 2014
A legal case involving $1 billion in wrongful death and other judgments against a bankrupt nursing home company can proceed, a federal court has ruled. The matter involves private equity firm GTCR, which...