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Nursing Home Beds In The United States Are Declining

June 8, 2023

Nursing Home Beds Declining: The results of a study published on March 1, 2023 in JAMA Network entitled “Trends in Supply of Nursing Home Beds, 2011-2019” found that the number of nursing home beds in the United States declined between 2011 and 2019: “the supply of nursing home bed[...]

Analysis Of Pain Experienced By Nursing Home Residents

May 26, 2023

Analysis Of Pain Experienced By Nursing Home Residents: A study published on December 22, 2022 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Association entitled “Pain trajectories of nursing home residents” sought to understand changes in nursing home (NH) resident pain over time in order t[...]

OIG Found CMS Dropping The Ball Regarding Nursing Home Surveys

May 24, 2023

OIG Found CMS Dropping The Ball Regarding Nursing Home Surveys: In its January 2022 report entitled “CMS Should Take Further Action To Address States With Poor Performance inConducting Nursing Home Surveys,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (&#[...]

Physician Noncompete Agreements Contribute To Physician Shortages

May 22, 2023

Physician Noncompete Agreements Contribute To Physician Shortages: One of the tried and true arguments that the health care industry promotes to advance their medical malpractice tort reform efforts before state legislatures that protect the financial interests of heath care providers at the expense[...]

Community Health Centers Medical Malpractice Statistics

May 8, 2023

Community Health Centers Malpractice Statistics: The Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Acts of 1992 and 1995 (FSHCAA) provides that certain persons, referred to as covered individuals (i.e., governing board members, officers, employees, and certain individual contractors) of FTCA covered[...]

Increasing Threat Of Spread of Antimicrobial-Resistant Fungus In Healthcare Facilities

May 5, 2023

Increasing Threat of Antimicrobial-Resistant Fungus: Candida auris (C. auris), an emerging fungus considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread at an alarming rate in U.S. healthcare facilities in 2020-2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C[...]

Report Finds Nursing Home Administrator Hours Down 20% Since Pandemic

May 2, 2023

Nursing Home Administrator Hours Down 20% Since Pandemic: The Long Term Care Community Coalition (“LTCCC”) reported: “nursing home administrators are providing less time in their facilities compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to payroll-based journal data, nursing h[...]

Almost One-Third Of U.S. Nursing Homes Overdue For Inspections

April 22, 2023

One-Third Of U.S. Nursing Homes Overdue For Inspections: Newsweek reported in early March 2023: “About 4,500 of the nation’s more than 15,000 nursing homes were reported overdue for an inspection as of mid-February, federal health data shows. Of those, more than 1,500 facilities’[...]

Connecticut Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed

April 15, 2023

Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed: On April 3, 2023, a Filshie clip migration lawsuit was filed on behalf of eleven women in Connecticut state court that alleged, in part: “It should go without saying that it is of the utmost importance that women know all risks associated with a particular[...]

Study: More Medical Malpractice Cases Being Filed Against Vascular Surgeons Involving Aortic Pathologies

April 13, 2023

More Cases Being Filed Involving Aortic Pathologies: More Medical Malpractice Cases Being Filed Against Vascular Surgeons: A study published online on December 19, 2022 entitled “An Analysis of Malpractice Litigation of Vascular Surgeons in Cases Involving Aortic Pathologies” that analyz[...]

Two Florida Doctors Convicted In $31 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

March 22, 2023

Doctors Convicted In $31 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme: A federal jury convicted two Florida doctors on January 30, 2023 for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting over $31 million in claims for expensive durable medical equipment (DME) that Medicare beneficiaries did not need and[...]

HCA Accused Of Putting Profits Before Patients

March 9, 2023

HCA Accused Of Putting Profits Before Patients: A staffing paper from Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s largest union of healthcare workers, entitled “Care Crisis How Low Staffing Contributes to Patient Care Failures at HCA Hospitals” states: HCA Healthcare is [...]

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