Nursing Homes May Manipulate The Medicare Star-Rating System
August 30, 2014
Medicare employs a five-star quality rating system for nursing homes throughout the United States. Nursing homes that receive a five-star rating are supposed to be the best in the nation – only about one-fifth of the more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States have received a five-sta[...]
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Nursing Home Falls
May 9, 2014
Too many elderly and infirmed residents of nursing homes in the United States suffer preventable falls that result in further physical or mental deterioration, including fractures that may require surgery or even an untimely and unexpected death. Many nursing home falls are foreseeable and preventab[...]
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Ohio Nursing Home Verdict For Suffocation Death
September 15, 2013
On September 9, 2013, after approximately two weeks of trial, an Ohio jury awarded $375,000 to the family of a 70-year-old nursing home resident who suffocated and died when the electricity to the nursing home went out during a storm, causing his breathing machine to stop functioning. The res[...]
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Dire Consequences Of Poor Dental Hygiene In Nursing Homes
August 20, 2013
An evaluation of 328 studies reported between 1996 and 2007 that appeared in the September 2010 edition of The Journal of the American Dental Association addressed the question, “Does better oral hygiene prevent health care–associated pneumonia or lower the rate of respiratory infectio[...]
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Florida Nursing Home Negligence Jury Verdict: $1.2 BILLION
July 25, 2013
On July 22, 2013, a Florida jury awarded $1.2 billion to the family of a 69-year-old nursing home resident who died after repeated falls in the nursing home that the nursing home negligently failed to prevent. The nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed in 2009 and involved years of legal ma[...]
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West Virginia Nursing Home Settles Wrongful Death Case
July 12, 2013
A West Virginia judge approved a settlement on May 15, 2013 in a malpractice lawsuit that had been filed against a West Virginia nursing home arising out of the death of one of its residents. The nursing home malpractice lawsuit alleged that an 85-year-old woman who had been a resident of the nursi[...]
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