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Former Nursing Assistant In Baton Rouge Indicted For Negligent Homicide

January 3, 2026

The Louisiana Attorney General announced on October 6, 2025 that a former nursing assistant at a facility in Baton Rouge has been indicted by a grand jury after an investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. According to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, on June 14, 2024, Diamond [...]

Updated Guidance For Prevention And Control Of Infections In Nursing Homes

December 31, 2025

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Society (PALTmed), and the American Geriatrics[...]

California Supreme Court Upholds Nursing Home Misgendering Law As Constitutional

December 25, 2025

In 2017, the California Legislature enacted the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights. (Stats. 2017, ch. 483, amending Health & Saf. Code, div. 2 to add ch. 2.45. The legislationcomprehensively addresses issues concerning lesbian, gay, bisexu[...]

OIG Report: CMS’s Special Focus Facility Program for Nursing Homes Has Not Yielded Lasting Improvements

December 15, 2025

The Special Focus Facility (SFF) program is CMS’s program is intended to address quality problems at the nation’s poorest-performing nursing homes with track records of serious noncompliance. Assessing the effectiveness of the SFF program is critical to ensure that CMS provides support and accou[...]

OIG Report: Medicare Improperly Paid Suppliers $22.7 Million Over 7 Years for Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Provided to Enrollees During Inpatient Stays

December 14, 2025

Durable Medical Equipment Durable medical equipment (DME) is generally defined as equipment that can withstand repeated use, serves primarily a medical purpose, is not generally useful to a person in the absence of an illness or injury, and is appropriate for use in an enrollee’s home. Examples of[...]

High Death Rates For Dialysis Centers In The United States

December 6, 2025

An investigation by a CBS News Data Team found that death rates for kidney dialysis patients in the United States are among the highest in the industrialized world: one-third of the nation’s dialysis centers have failed to meet federal performance standards. Texas, which has the highest number[...]

ProMedica Health System, Inc. Sued By U.S. For Providing Grossly Substandard Nursing Home Services

December 3, 2025

The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under the False Claims Act (FCA) against ProMedica Health System, Inc. (ProMedica) and various affiliated entities including HCR ManorCare Inc. and four nursing homes located in[...]

HHS Repeals Federal Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

December 2, 2025

On December 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) repealed provisions of the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting Final Rule, originally finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]

Study Finds Quality Of Florida Nursing Home Care Declined After Change To Private-Equity Ownership

November 28, 2025

Between 2019 and 2024, 425 nursing homes in Florida (over 60% of Florida’s total nursing homes) changed ownership, with at least one-third of these sold to private equity investors. In 2019, 29 of Florida’s total nursing home facilities reported ownership changes. In 2020, the number of owne[...]

Audit Finds Tennessee Health Facilities Commission Failures In Its Nursing Homes Oversight

November 27, 2025

The first official performance audit of the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission, which is required to survey nursing homes and assisted care living facilities every 15 months to ensure they continue to meet state and federal healthand safety standards, found that from July 1, 2022, through April [...]

Do Apologies Avoid Medical Malpractice Lawsuits?

November 25, 2025

In a research article entitled “On the Influence of Apologies on the Likelihood of Lawsuits in Cases of Perceived Medical Negligence: Analysis of Archival and Experimental Data” published on October 14, 2025 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the researchers sought to investiga[...]

Use Of AI (Large Language Models (LLMs)) In Providing Medical Advice To The Public

November 20, 2025

A medical research paper entitled “Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions” tested if LLMs can assist members of the public in identifying underlying conditions and choosing a course of action (disposition) in ten medical scenarios in a controlled study with 1[...]

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