Survey Finds 94% Of U.S. Nursing Homes Face Staffing Shortages
July 13, 2021
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) conducted a survey of 616 nursing homes and 122 assisted living communities across the U.S., inquiring about challenges they face in their workforce. The survey found that almost three-fourths of nursing homes a[...]
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California Nursing Home Whistleblower Lawsuit Settled For $3.5M
September 18, 2016
On September 9, 2016, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced that on August 3, 2016, a Los Angeles nursing home and two physicians who worked at the California nursing home paid $3,563,140 to resolve civil allegations contained in a federal whistleblower l[...]
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Dangers Of Coumadin For Nursing Homes Residents
August 12, 2015
On July 17, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent a memo to state health departments warning of the danger of misuse of the common blood-thinner Coumadin for nursing home residents, requesting that state health inspectors pay increased attention to errors by nursing homes in m[...]
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Florida Nursing Home Chain Sued For Three Nursing Home Deaths
January 10, 2015
A Florida law firm has filed three wrongful death nursing home claims against the owners and managers of three Florida nursing homes on behalf of three former residents who died allegedly as a result of nursing home negligence and nursing home greed. Resident One A female resident was admitted to[...]
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The 5 Most Common Preventable Nursing Home Adverse Events
April 22, 2014
According to the February 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” five physicians were contracted to review th[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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Four Connecticut Nursing Home Choking Deaths In Three Months
August 5, 2012
Four Connecticut nursing home residents have died due to choking between February and April, 2012. The last case occurred on April 18, 2012, when a resident who suffered from dementia and needed to be carefully watched while she was eating, was seated in a wheelchair in the nursing home’s di[...]
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