Private Equity Nursing Homes
June 20, 2025
A report from April 2025 entitled Private Equity is Continuing to Acquire – and Bankrupt – Nursing Homes found: If you or a loved one suffered injuries (or worse) while a resident of a nursing home in the United States due to nursing home neglect, nursing home negligence, nursing home ab[...]
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How Can I Find The Best Nursing Home Injury Lawyers Near Me?
August 27, 2024
As of July 2022, there were 15,178 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes nationwide, of which 10,702 were for-profit nursing homes. More than 1.3 million people reside in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes nationwide. Approximately two-thirds of those nursing homes are for-profit[...]
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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[...]
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Nursing Home Claims Characteristics
February 8, 2013
The results of a study reported in 2011 regarding nursing home claims made against nursing homes operated by the five largest nursing home chains in the United States (for the period from 2000 through 2006 for one of the nursing home chains, the period from 2000 through 2005 for a second chain of [...]
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$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 [...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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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