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Michigan Attorney General Sues Nursing Home Operator For Medicaid False Claim Act Violations, Failure Of Care For Residents

October 25, 2026

Michigan’s Attorney General announced on July 30, 2026 that a lawsuit has been filed against Fahim Uddin, Pioneer Health Care Management doing business as Legacy Healthcare Management, and nine nursing home facilities located throughout southeast Michigan for violations of the Michigan Medicai[...]

Study: More Family Visits For Nursing Home Residents Resulted In Greater Staff-Reported Resident Symptoms

October 6, 2026

A study entitled Family Visits and Symptom Burden in Nursing Home Residents With Cognitive Impairment that was recently reported in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found “a significant and positive correlation between family visitation and symptom burden. However, this finding w[...]

62.8% Of U.S. For-Profit Nursing Homes Changed Ownership During COVID-19 Pandemic

September 11, 2026

A study published in March 2026 that was designed to examine relationships between facility and resident characteristics to ownership change in U.S. nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., between March 2020 to March 2023) reported that of the 9,256 for-profit nursing homes with an organiz[...]

Study Found Nursing Home Residents With Vision Loss Linked To Higher Cognitive Impairment

September 1, 2026

A study that analyzed data from 9,935 nursing home residents aged 65 and older with baseline visits in the Western North Carolina Nursing Homes Study (WNCNHS) found that cognitive loss prevalence increased progressively across worsening vision categories: 52.2% among residents with normal vision, 58[...]

Tennessee Nursing Home Company Agrees To Pay $2M To Resolve Grossly Substandard Care Allegations

July 28, 2026

The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee announced on March 30, 2026 that American Health Companies, LLC (“AHC”), doing business as American Health Partners (“AHP”), has agreed to pay $2,090,309 to the United States and Tennessee to resolve False Claims Act allegations[...]

45% Of Nursing Home Staff Turnover Is Unreported

July 9, 2026

In 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) incorporated annual turnover into Five-Star Ratings but adopted a definition excluding staff below a 120-hour-in-90-days threshold. By 2022-2023, 45% of nursing hires were excluded under CMS’s definition of turnover and therefore [...]

New Jersey Comptroller’s Medicaid Fraud Report Regarding Two Nursing Homes

June 16, 2026

The New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) conducted an in-depth investigation into the operations of two nursing homes, Hammonton Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare (Hammonton) and Deptford Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare (Deptford), focusing on a five-and-a-half-year perio[...]

Bed Rails Recalled Due To Entrapment Risk

May 24, 2026

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Vive Health LLC, of Naples, Florida, announced on March 26, 2026, the recall of three models of Vive Health adult bed rails. The recalled bed rails pose a risk of entrapment and asphyxia because users can become entrapped within the rail or betw[...]

Reinstatement Of Medicare’s 3-Day Hospital Inpatient Stay Rule Resulted In Longer Hospital Stays

April 24, 2026

Medicare ‘s 3-Day Hospital Stay Rule The Medicare 3-day hospital stay rule is a screening mechanism so that Medicare only covers skilled nursing facility (SNF) care for patients with short-term rehabilitation needs. The 3-day rule provides that SNF care would be covered only if the Medicare be[...]

Nurse.Org Poll Found 94% Of Nurses Believe Eliminating Nursing Home Staffing Rules Will Harm Patient Care

February 27, 2026

Nurse.org polled 262 nurses from December 6 to December 29, 2025, asking how they believe the elimination of the nursing home staffing mandate will impact resident care, nurse workloads, and the future of long-term care staffing standards, and reported its findings on December 30, 2025: Most Nurses[...]

Investigation Uncovers Massive Medicaid Scam At Two New Jersey Nursing Homes

January 27, 2026

The Office of the State Comptroller finds Hammonton and Deptford nursing home owners and associates diverted millions as residents suffered and should repay $124 million: The New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) has conducted an in-depth investigation into the operations of two nursing h[...]

Former Nursing Assistant In Baton Rouge Indicted For Negligent Homicide

January 3, 2026

The Louisiana Attorney General announced on October 6, 2025 that a former nursing assistant at a facility in Baton Rouge has been indicted by a grand jury after an investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. According to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, on June 14, 2024, Diamond [...]

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