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Florida Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement, Finding Lack Of Mental Capacity

July 13, 2026

Joseph Moravia, as personal representative of his father Jacques Moravia’s estate, sued Dolphin Pointe and Clear Choice alleging his father died as a result of abuse and neglect while a resident at their nursing home. In response, Dolphin Pointe and Clear Choice moved to compel arbitration based o[...]

Study: Nursing Home Staffing Mandates Did Not Result In Financial Losses Or Facility Closures

April 26, 2026

A study published on March 3, 2026 in the journal Health Affairs that analyzed longitudinal data from the period 2010–23 on 6,849 nursing homes operating across twenty-two U.S. states estimated the effects of state minimum staffing mandates on staffing levels, financial health, and closures. [...]

Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Post-Acute Care For Two-Thirds of Nursing Homes

October 8, 2025

A survey conducted by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) found that Medicare Advantage (MA )plans are denying or delaying medically necessary post-acute care, often against medical professionals’ recommendations, on a daily and weekly basis. The survey was conducted by the AHCA i[...]

More Than 25% Of Nursing Homes Spend Less Than $10 Per Day Per Resident On Food

June 29, 2025

According to a recent report of an analysis of U.S. nursing homes that involved reviewing thousands of federal cost reports filed with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS): There are no federal or state regulations on spending for food by nursing homes: half of all nursing homes in the United[...]

Ohio Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Choking Death Recorded On Video

August 6, 2024

The family of an Ohio nursing home resident who died as a result of choking after eating lunch on January 16, 2022 has filed a lawsuit against the nursing home for negligence, wrongful death, and violations of nursing home resident rights. The family’s lawsuit alleges that the resident was kno[...]

Elder Abuse In The United States (Including Nursing Home Abuse)

June 1, 2024

A report issued in March 2024 by SeniorLiving.org entitled “Elder Abuse Statistics for 2024” stated: “Reports from nursing home workers indicate that two in three caregivers committed abuse within a one-year period (elder abuse is defined by the National Center on Elder Abuse as a[...]

Letter To Congress Stresses Need For Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes

August 20, 2023

Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes: In its June 16, 2023 letter to the United States Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) stated, “Despite years of government reports sounding the alarm about infection control lapses in nursing[...]

Study Finds Nursing Home Falls And Pressure Ulcers Underreported

July 12, 2023

Nursing Home Falls And Pressure Ulcers Underreported: A study published on May 23, 2023 in JAMA Network entitled “Underreporting of Quality Measures and Associated Facility Characteristics and Racial Disparities in US Nursing Home Ratings” investigated what extent are nursing home charac[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Florida Nursing Home Pays $1.75M To Settle False Claims Act Allegations Concerning COVID-19 Vaccinations Provided To Ineligible Donors And Prospective Donors

September 26, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on June 30, 2022 that MorseLife Health System Inc. (MorseLife) agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve its potential liability under the False Claims Act for facilitating COVID-19 vaccinations for hundreds of individuals ineligible to participate in t[...]

Nursing Home Costs And Assisted Living Costs In The United States (2021)

February 25, 2022

The national median costs associated with all long-term care service providers increased in 2021 compared to 2020. The cost of Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) has risen an average of 4.65% since 2020, with the annual national median for a private, one-bedroom arrangement at these facilities reporte[...]

Study Finds COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths Were Underreported

September 29, 2021

A study published on September 9, 2021 by JAMA Network Open entitled “Estimates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents Not Reported in Federal Data” found: “In this cross-sectional study of 15 307 US nursing homes, approximately 44% of COVID-19 cases and 40% of[...]

$5 Million New York City Nursing Home Neglect Verdict

January 3, 2020

On December 12, 2019, a New York City nursing home neglect jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,032,281 ($2,980,281 awarded in compensatory damages and an additional $2,052,000 in statutory interest) against a New York City nursing home for its alleged neglect of an elderly resident that ul[...]

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