Same flaws that have weakened state staffing rules may undercut federal push for nursing home minimums
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Jordan Rau, KFF Health News
Jul 12, 2024
The administration’s plan also has some of the same weaknesses that have hampered states. It relies on underfunded health inspectors for enforcement, lacks explicit penalties for violations, and offers...
First-of-its-kind resident lawsuit targets state health department’s late nursing home inspections
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
A group of nursing home residents in Maryland has filed the first known lawsuit seeking to compel a state to meet requirements that it inspect all of its skilled nursing facilities at least annually.
Staffing rule financial penalties could be ‘existential’ crisis for nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a laundry list of possible enforcement actions for nursing homes that fail to meet new staffing requirements, providers can only wonder...
Question and Answer on Immediate Jeopardy
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Joan Redden
Mar 21, 2013
In the 2013 McKnight’s Online Expo session on Immediate Jeopardy, we did not have time to answer all the questions asked. Here is a follow-up Q and A, answered by presenter Joan Redden, the vice...
Immediate Jeopardy citing for sex was correct: Court
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Elizabeth Newman
Jan 04, 2019
Sexual encounters between residents with dementia at a nursing facility may not have been truly consensual, and the government was within its right to fine the facility accordingly, a court said in December.
Court upholds Immediate Jeopardy tags
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 01, 2013
An Alabama nursing home that did not properly handle a resident with pressure sores on her feet is on the hook for Immediate Jeopardy fines of nearly $135,000, a federal appeals court recently affirmed.
Inspectors from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have been issuing an ever-growing number of serious citations against nursing homes, according to a USA Today analysis featured in Wednesday’s...
Court upholds Immediate Jeopardy citations for nursing home in AL pressure sore case
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McKnight's Staff
Mar 06, 2013
An Alabama nursing home that did not properly handle a resident with pressure sores on her feet is on the hook for Immediate Jeopardy fines of nearly $135,000, a federal appeals court recently affirmed.
Court throws out Immediate Jeopardy citation for undercooked eggs, repudiates interpretation of ‘ambiguous’...
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 03, 2013
A Texas nursing home recently won a legal battle challenging an Immediate Jeopardy citation for serving undercooked eggs to residents.
Embrace Immediate Jeopardy triggers as quality assessment tool, experts say
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McKnight's Staff
Oct 10, 2012
While state surveyors vary in what they consider Immediate Jeopardy for long-term care residents, operators can use government guidelines to work on their quality assurance plans, experts advised Tuesday.