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OIG Report: CMS’s Special Focus Facility Program for Nursing Homes Has Not Yielded Lasting Improvements

December 15, 2025

The Special Focus Facility (SFF) program is CMS’s program is intended to address quality problems at the nation’s poorest-performing nursing homes with track records of serious noncompliance. Assessing the effectiveness of the SFF program is critical to ensure that CMS provides support and accou[...]

National Poll Finds More Than One-Third Of Americans Give Nursing Homes D+ For Quality Of Care

September 14, 2023

A national survey conducted online from July 5 to July 24, 2023 by West Health and Gallup, Inc. found that 36% of the respondents gave nursing homes in the United States a “D” (poor) rating for quality of care; 6% gave them an “F” (fail); 33% grade nursing homes as satisfactory (C”[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Enforces Arbitration Of Nursing Home Injury Claim

October 6, 2020

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated March 3, 2020, affirmed the trial court’s order requiring that a New Jersey nursing home injury claim be arbitrated pursuant to an arbitration agreement signed by the resident&#[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Based On Equitable Estoppel

June 12, 2018

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) refused to enforce an arbitration agreement in a New Jersey nursing home wrongful death action. In its unpublished opinion filed on May 21, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Court held that there is no eviden[...]

CMS Proposes Changes To Final Rule Involving Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements That Will Harm Injured Residents’ Rights

June 8, 2017

On June 5, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued proposed revisions to arbitration agreement requirements for long-term care facilities (nursing homes) that eviscerates the protections proposed by the Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities Final Rule (&#[...]

Wisconsin Nursing Home Fined $30,750 For 30 Violations; Had Hired Convicted Sex Offender

April 1, 2014

On February 28, 2014, a Wisconsin 77-bed nursing home that opened in 2012 was cited by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Quality Assurance with 30 violations as a result of an investigation conducted from September 24, 2013 to January 9, 2014. The nursing home (which bills it[...]

Tennessee Nursing Home Fined $239,972 In 2012 For Serious Violations

January 20, 2013

A Nashville, Tennessee nursing home was cited for various violations of state and federal regulations that allegedly placed residents in immediate jeopardy of harm. One of the fines was in the amount of $231,972 that was imposed on May 12, 2012 after the January 19, 2012 death of a nursing home r[...]

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