Recent risk management developments have raised the ante for providers. Answers may lie in mastering basic practices
Court: Federal Nursing Home Act doesn’t create private rights
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Sep 23, 2015
The family of a nursing home resident who died of injuries sustained in a fall can’t invoke the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act when seeking damages, a court has ruled.
Older population may have better immunity to swine flu, CDC says
May 22, 2009
Here’s some good news for nursing home residents and seniors: New information is emerging that suggests those born before 1957 may be carrying a built-in immunity to the new H1N1 strain, also known...
CMS, OIG agree on increasing scrutiny of psychotropic drug use
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Joe Bush
Nov 18, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be increasing its oversight of the use of psychotropic drugs to pay closer attention to certain classes, warned the lead author of a federal report identifying...
Federal court rules against nursing home immunity
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Neville M. Bilimoria
Dec 18, 2020
On Oct. 16, a federal court issued an opinion that greatly limits federal immunity protections for nursing homes. The case of Sherod v. Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services, LLC, should be on all...
Gig app CNAs can pursue ‘gap time’ wages from nursing home: court
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Josh Henreckson
Feb 20, 2024
Two certified nursing assistants hired as contractors through a gig work app can continue pursuing back wages from a nursing home they argue treated them as employees, a District Court judge ruled.
Time to reboot this case
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John O'Connor
Jul 01, 2013
We’re hearing a lot lately about mandatory drug testing in the workplace. It appears that the Tennessee Supreme Court might be a good place to put such a requirement in place.
Pushing a wheelchair not ‘medical service’ under arbitration agreement, so wrongful death suit against...
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Danielle Brown
Jan 30, 2020
An Arizona skilled nursing facility won’t be allowed to use arbitration in a wrongful death lawsuit that stemmed from a wheelchair accident involving a resident, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Remorseful nurses spared jail, get probation in alarm-fatigue death
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Marty Stempniak
Jan 29, 2019
Three former nursing home employees will not have to serve time in jail stemming from a resident’s alarm-fatigue related death.
SNF will have to hand over internal reports in negligence case, court rules
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Feb 15, 2017
An Illinois skilled nursing facility will have to produce internal documents in a negligence lawsuit filed by the family of a resident, an appeals court ruled last week.