Skilled Healthcare Group CEO to retire as company rebuilds
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 01, 2013
Boyd Hendrickson, a transformative figure in long-term care while at the helm of Skilled Healthcare Group, will be retiring as the company restructures its balance sheet and administrative services.
Double homicide at Houston nursing home; victims’ roommate arrested
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Tim Mullaney
Apr 24, 2014
A double murder occurred late Tuesday night in a Houston nursing home room shared by four men, according to local authorities. Police arrested Guillermo Correa on suspicion of beating two of his roommates...
Citing ‘thin’ evidence of wrongdoing, judge moves $10 million nursing home kickback case...
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 12, 2013
The government has presented “thin” evidence against a nursing home therapy provider in a high-profile whistleblower case, but a jury still might reasonably find the therapy company guilty...
Authorities arrest nine nursing home workers in New York, bring criminally negligent homicide charges
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Tim Mullaney
Feb 12, 2014
Workers at a Long Island nursing home consistently neglected residents, leading to at least one death, while the facility’s owners pocketed $60 million in Medicaid payments meant for resident care,...
$2 million HIPAA settlement highlights mobile device risks facing healthcare providers
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Tim Mullaney
Apr 24, 2014
Laptops and other mobile devices containing personal health information have been stolen from long-term care ombudsman programs and other healthcare organizations, including from Concentra Health Services...
Assisted living communities continue to make a terrible first impression on prospective customers, university...
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Tim Mullaney
Sep 15, 2014
Assisted living communities consistently do not make a good first impression with prospective customers, and they haven’t improved this skill set in the last decade, according to data from George...
Help keep Holocaust survivors out of long-term care facilities, panelists urge Congressional lawmakers
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 17, 2014
Strenuous efforts should be made to provide aging Holocaust survivors with home care, because institutional settings tend to trigger post-traumatic stress disorder for this group, experts told lawmakers...
Congress grills top judge on appeals jam backlog
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 01, 2014
There is no easy fix to the staggering backlog of Medicare appeals, a government official said during a July 10 Congressional hearing.
Life Care Centers of America receives top Quality honor in 2013 McKnight’s Technology Awards
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 30, 2013
Life Care Centers of America has captured the top honor in the Quality category of McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The strong entries in the second annual competition proved “this...
MI nursing home fined $100,000 for failure to perform CPR on resident calling for help
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 11, 2014
A Michigan nursing home has been fined more than $100,000 for failing to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a resident, local news sources reported Monday.