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OIG: Nursing Homes Failed To Report 43% Of Falls With Major Injury And Hospitalization Among Their Medicare-Enrolled Residents

November 1, 2025

Falls among older adults, including nursing home residents, are common, costly, and often preventable. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), approximately half of nursing home residents experience a fall in any given year, resulting in serious injuries and decreased qua[...]

Study: Major Underreporting Of Fall And Pressure Ulcer Injuries In U.S. Nursing Homes

September 5, 2025

The results of a study that were published in 2023 that investigated the question, “To what extent are nursing home characteristics associated with reporting rates of major injury falls and pressure ulcers on the Nursing Home Care Compare (NHCC) website?” that involved 13, 179 nursing [...]

Study Found New Lighting System Cut Nursing Home Resident Fall Risk By 43%

December 29, 2022

New Lighting System Cut Nursing Home Resident Fall Risk By 43%: A study entitled Impact of Upgraded Lighting on Falls in Care Home Residents published on July 15, 2022 in The Journal of Post Acute and Long Term Care Medicine reported: “Before the lighting upgrade, the rate of falls was similar[...]

Nursing Home Compare’s Fall Data May Be “Highly Inaccurate”

February 12, 2020

A study published on December 29, 2019 entitled, “Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality measurement on nursing home compare,” concluded: “The nursing home‐reported data used for the NHC [Nursing Home Compare] falls measure may be highly inaccurate[...]

$250,000 Pennsylvania Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Death Of 85-Year-Old Resident

December 24, 2017

A Pennsylvania nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $250,000 on December 9, 2017, following a one-week trial and five hours of deliberations. The deceased resident’s family had alleged in their Pennsylvania nursing home negligence lawsui[...]

Facial Injuries In Nursing Home Residents

April 12, 2017

A study published online on March 16, 2017 in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery analyzed the incidence of facial injuries (facial trauma) in nursing home residents in the United States. The study found that there were 109,795 nursing home residents who required emergen[...]

California Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Neglect Led To Resident’s Fall And Death

July 10, 2016

A California nursing home negligence lawsuit filed on June 14, 2016 alleges that a California nursing home’s under-staffing and its neglect of a 74-year-old resident led to her fall in February 2016 while she was in her bathroom and her subsequent death one month later while being treated in a[...]

150th Consecutive Daily Blog (And Counting)

August 1, 2011

Today’s blog represents the 150th consecutive daily entry appearing in this blog. Over 500 hours have been devoted to researching and writing the blogs that have appeared here. We have addressed the official statistics regarding medical malpractice claims in the U.S. (March 5) as well as i[...]

Nursing Home Falls

June 11, 2011

There were 1.5 million people age 65 and older who lived in nursing homes in the U.S. in 2003, and that number is expected to rise to 3 million by the year 2030. About 5% of adults 65 and older live in nursing homes but they account for 20% of all deaths from falls in people 65 and […][...]

Fall Prevention And Medical Malpractice

March 15, 2011

It is not uncommon for a patient in a hospital or in a nursing home to suffer one or more falls, resulting in serious injuries or even death. Not all falls are the result of medical malpractice (by definition in Maryland, medical malpractice occurs when the care given by the heal[...]

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