$1M Nursing Home Bedsore Claim Settlement
March 7, 2016
In late February 2016, shortly before the March 4 scheduled start of a California nursing home negligence and elder abuse lawsuit, the parties announced that the defendant California nursing home, which charges residents $100,000 per year for nursing home care and promised its residents that it woul[...]
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New Analysis Of CMS’ Nursing Home Compare Website Data
May 21, 2015
There are over 15,500 nursing homes in the United States that are certified to provide care to Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries (92% of the nursing homes are certified by both), which provide care for approximately 1.3 million residents every day. Seventy-percent of those nursing homes are for-p[...]
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Husband Acquitted Of Sexually Abusing His Wife In Nursing Home
April 26, 2015
In a criminal case closely followed by the nursing home industry, nursing home residents, and their spouses and families, an elderly Iowa man was acquitted on April 22, 2015 of criminal charges that he sexually abused his wife while she was a resident of a nursing home. The alleged sexual conta[...]
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Nursing Home Care Costs In The United States Continue To Climb
April 15, 2015
A large Fortune 500 insurance company recently published the results of its survey of the costs of nursing home care in the United States. The costs of nursing home care in the United States increased by an average of 4% during the last five years – the median cost in now $91,250 (in 2014, t[...]
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CMS Announces Revisions To Nursing Home Rating System
February 22, 2015
On February 12, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced revisions to its often-criticized system of rating nursing homes in the United States, which prospective nursing home residents and their families may rely on in selecting nursing home care. CM[...]
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