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Delirium Still A Problem In Nursing Homes

May 8, 2025

A study published on March 17, 2025 in JAMA Network Open entitled “Persistence of Delirium in Postacute Care at Skilled Nursing Facilities” stated, in part: “Annually, more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from acute care hospitals to skilled nursing facilities [...]

Federal Court Holds D.C. Violated Integration Mandate For Certain Nursing Home Residents

March 2, 2025

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia held in its December 31, 2024 Opinion: “the Court finds that the District of Columbia has failed to comply with the integration mandate of Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring, 527 U.S. 581 (1999), thereby violating the Americans with D[...]

Massachusetts Nursing Home Chain Agrees To $4M Settlement Regarding Staffing Shortage Claims

October 13, 2024

On June 10, 2024, the Attorney General of Massachusetts announced a $4 million settlement with Next Step Healthcare, LLC (“Next Step”), a Woburn-based long-term care management company that operates sixteen nursing homes in Massachusetts. The settlement, which is the largest nursing home settlem[...]

Nursing Home Negligence: Resident Falls And Then Placed Back In Bed Without Proper Medical Care

January 31, 2016

It is too often that we are contacted by the family of a nursing home resident who was seriously injured after falling out of bed or from a wheelchair while in the nursing home, only to be placed back in bed or placed back in a wheelchair, without receiving proper medical evaluation and medical care[...]

Indiana Nursing Home Resident Died With Objects Down His Throat And Up His Rectum

May 23, 2015

On May 14, 2015, a 72-year-old resident of an Indiana nursing home was found unresponsive in the nursing home dining room and later died at a local hospital. The mentally ill resident was found to have latex gloves shoved down his throat and eyeglasses and a toothbrush jammed up his rectum. The dea[...]

Resident On Resident Mistreatment In Nursing Homes Affects One In Five Residents

November 10, 2014

A new study found that one in five nursing home residents (19.8%) had been involved in “mistreatment” between nursing home residents during a four-week period in 10 randomly selected nursing homes (skilled nursing facilities (SNF)) in New York State. The residents identified as having [...]

Nursing Home Rape

May 10, 2014

On May 7, 2014, a 24-year-old certified nursing assistant (“CNA”) employed at a Massachusetts nursing home was arraigned on four felony counts – two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and one count of battery – with regard to the alleged rape of a 69-year-old fema[...]

Arkansas $5.2 Million Nursing Home Verdict May Be Uncollectible

May 19, 2013

On May 16, 2013, a medical malpractice jury in Faulkner County, Arkansas returned a unanimous verdict against a local nursing home in the amount of $5.2 million after determining that the nursing home had been negligent in its care and treatment of an elderly female resident. The resident died at[...]

Chicago Nursing Home Verdict

March 25, 2013

On March 20, 2013, a Cook County jury returned its verdict in the amount of $842,801 in favor of an 87-year-old resident of the Kenwood Healthcare Center in Chicago who had fallen at the nursing home on December 26, 2008 and suffered a broken hip, fractured pelvis, and fractured shoulder, all on h[...]

Tennessee-Based Nursing Home Company To Pay $2.7 Million To Settle False Claims Allegations

March 15, 2013

On March 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Tennessee-based nursing home manager Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (“Grace”) had agreed on March 4, 2013 to pay $2.7 million, plus interest, to settle the allegations contained[...]

Minnesota Assisted Living Facility Cited For Failing To Seek Medical Care For Resident Who Fell

February 2, 2013

A Minnesota assisted-living facility has been cited by the Minnesota Health Department for neglect involving of one of its residents who injured her head as a result of a fall for which the assisted-living facility failed to timely seek medical attention. The resident was not hospitalized for thr[...]

Tennessee Nursing Home Fined $239,972 In 2012 For Serious Violations

January 20, 2013

A Nashville, Tennessee nursing home was cited for various violations of state and federal regulations that allegedly placed residents in immediate jeopardy of harm. One of the fines was in the amount of $231,972 that was imposed on May 12, 2012 after the January 19, 2012 death of a nursing home r[...]

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