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New OIG Report On Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Programs Failures

May 10, 2025

In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took steps to bolster nursing home emergency preparedness and response through enhanced Requirements for Participation (RfPs). Nursing homes must meet these RfPs to begin or continue participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. [...]

California And Nursing Home Operators Agree To Stipulated Final Judgment

June 2, 2024

The State of California and the operators of skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes) in California entered into a Stipulated Final Judgment signed by a judge on March 14, 2024, which included Mariner Health Care Inc. as a defendant, that stated, in part: “Pursuant to Business and Profession[...]

HHS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards For Nursing Homes

September 2, 2023

HHS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards: On September 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), issued a proposed rule that seeks to establish comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes—including, for[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Florida Nursing Home Resident Charged In Beating Death Of Another Resident

October 13, 2022

Nursing Home Resident Charged In Death Of Another Resident: A homicide investigation is underway after deputies responded to a call around 2 a.m. in mid-May 2022 at the Gold Choice Assisted Living & Memory Care facility on N. Old Kings Road, Palm Coast. The victim was found beaten in the room of[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Unconscionable

June 30, 2019

In its reported opinion filed on June 27, 2019, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held a nursing home arbitration agreement was unconscionable and therefore unenforceable. Arbitration agreements that require the contracting parties to waive their right[...]

Ohio Nursing Home Resident Died After Accidentally Setting Himself On Fire While Smoking A Cigarette

May 1, 2019

On April 17, 2019, a 63-year-old Ohio nursing home resident accidentally set himself on fire while smoking a cigarette while sitting in his wheelchair in front of the nursing home. The man was using oxygen at the time of the incident. The police arrived on the scene after receiving a frantic 911 cal[...]

Arizona Nursing Home Resident In Vegetative State For Over 14 Years Gives Birth At The Nursing Home

January 13, 2019

An Arizona nursing home resident who has been in a vegetative state for fourteen years since she experienced a near-drowning event, and who has been a resident of the Arizona nursing home for at least ten years, unexpectedly gave birth at the nursing home on December 29, 2018. A source reportedly st[...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Arbitration Of Nursing Home Claims

March 18, 2018

In its decision filed on February 26, 2018, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed the order of the trial court that denied the defendant nursing home’s petition to compel arbitration as to the[...]

Study Shows Nursing Home Residents Suffer Infections While Their Caregivers Often Escape Responsibility

January 2, 2018

A study conducted by the Kaiser Health News, which is a nonprofit news service focused on health issues that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente, found that 74% of nursing homes in the United States have been cited for lapses in infection control, yet only one in 75 nursing homes that were foun[...]

OIG Report On Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect

September 15, 2017

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a memorandum dated August 24, 2017 entitled “Early Alert: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Has Inadequate Procedures To Ensure That Incidents of Potential Abuse or Neglect a[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Loses Medicare And Medicaid Authorizations, Closing Its Doors

July 2, 2017

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced on June 7, 2017 that Maryland nursing home operator NMS Healthcare of Hagerstown LLC has been terminated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from the lis[...]

Virginia Nursing Home Allegedly Tied Resident To Wheelchair, Injected Her With Sedative

January 20, 2017

An 84-year-old former resident of a Virginia nursing home, and her daughter, have filed a Virginia nursing home abuse lawsuit in which they allege that two nurses at the defendant nursing home tied the resident to her wheelchair with bed sheets and then injected her with narcotic sedatives to keep h[...]

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