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$35.8M Awarded In Back Wages After Investigation Found Nursing Homes Wage Theft

October 2, 2024

The U. S. Department of Labor announced on July 30, 2024 that a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facil[...]

Man Convicted Of 2010 Rape At Maryland Nursing Home

March 21, 2019

After a four-day trial during March 2019, a criminal jury convicted a Maryland man of first-degree rape, armed robbery, and a weapons charge related to an incident that occurred at a Maryland nursung home on December 6, 2010. The man was identfied when his DNA in a databank was matched to evidence o[...]

CMS Responds To Study Critical Of Association Between Nursing Home Compare And Nursing Home Safety

February 15, 2019

A study published in the November 2018 edition of Health Affairs looked at the association between performance on a set of patient safety measures and star ratings of nursing homes on CMS’ Nursing Home Compare (NHC). The authors concluded: “Although Nursing Home Compare captures some asp[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Refuses To Compel Arbitration In Nursing Home Death Case

October 22, 2018

The Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 5, 2018 that the daughter of a resident of the defendant nursing home did not have the authority to bind her father to the arbitration agreement contained in the nursing home admission documents, [...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

September 28, 2014

On September 11, 2014, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) issued its opinion in a case where an Arkansas nursing home attempted to enforce the arbitration agreement it placed in the admission documents for a nursing home resident. The nursing home attempted to comp[...]

New York Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Death; Employees Indicted

July 23, 2014

The children of a 72-year-old woman who was a short-term resident of a New York nursing home where she was supposed to be receiving rehabilitation services but died on October 26, 2012 from a heart attack because the nursing home staff allegedly had failed to have her on a ventilator at night, as or[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Nails Nursing Home For Understaffing/Harming Resident

June 20, 2014

In its decision filed on June 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (“Supreme Court”) upheld a substantial portion of the compensatory damages and the punitive damages awarded by a West Virginia jury against a nursing home and the various ownership and management compan[...]

$90.5 Million West Virginia Nursing Home Verdict Challenged

June 29, 2012

On June 28, 2012, the lawyers for the parties in a nursing home negligence case that resulted in a jury verdict in the amount of $90.5 million ($10 million for the alleged wrongful death of a nursing home resident and $80 million in punitive damages, based on claims of ordinary negligence, medical [...]

Study: Improving Economy Associated With Rise In Nursing Home Deaths

April 16, 2012

A recently published research study by a well-respected nonpartisan research group operating under a grant from the Social Security Administration found that during improving economic times when lower-paid nursing home staff seek and obtain better paying jobs elsewhere, there are additional dea[...]

Sexual Abuse Of Nursing Home Resident Alleged In Minnesota

March 26, 2012

A disturbing case of alleged sexual abuse of a nursing home resident in Minnesota is even more egregious because the former nursing home staff member had been investigated for prior alleged incidences of sexual abuse in other nursing homes. Minnesota officials investigated the sexual abuse allegatio[...]

Nursing Home Wandering And Elopement

March 23, 2012

Some residents of nursing homes have cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease that make them more prone to wandering or elopement, both of which can result in life-threatening injuries or even death. Wandering may be defined as straying into unsafe territories. Wandering may be eithe[...]

We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!

March 4, 2012

Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might be difficult to find relevant, interesting informat[...]

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