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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$15.7M Arkansas Verdict Against Troubled Nursing Home Chain
April 10, 2023
$15.7M Verdict Against Troubled Nursing Home Chain: In February 2023, an Arkansas nursing home malpractice lawsuit resulted in a verdict in the amount of $15,706,166 against an Arkansas nursing home that included $4,706,166 in compensatory damages ($206,167 in medical expenses, $1.5 million for the [...]
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VA Announces First Annual VA Nursing Home Ratings
July 29, 2018
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) issued its annual VA nursing homes ratings. The VA claims the data show that, overall, the VA’s nursing home system, which is composed of more than 130 community living centers, compares closely with private sector nurs[...]
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Iowa Nursing Home Fall Results In $15,000 State Fine
May 20, 2012
State nursing home regulators in Iowa have announced that a nursing home in Washington, Iowa has been fined $15,000 as a result of an investigation into a resident’s fall at the nursing home. According to the report of the investigation, the employees of the nursing home were enjoying a Christ[...]
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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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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
February 19, 2012
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]
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Michigan Medical Malpractice Leads To Broken Neck
February 11, 2012
A 90-year-old World War II vet who had Alzheimer’s disease and poor balance was supposed to never be left unattended where he could possibly fall. Unfortunately, a privately contracted nursing aide negligently left the man sitting on the edge of his bed when she left his room to obtain a piec[...]
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Minnesota Medical Malpractice Caused Choking Death
February 9, 2012
A Minnesota nursing home resident choked to death on March 18, 2011 while eating fruit from his dinner tray because the nursing home staff failed to supervise the 90-year-old man while he was eating, as they were required to do because of the man’s known swallowing problems. A nursing ass[...]
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Kansas Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
February 8, 2012
A licensed practical nurse (LPN) who worked in a Topeka, Kansas nursing home was supposed to administer morphine to a 105-year-old nursing home resident who had dementia and was in severe chronic pain but instead the LPN diluted the patient’s vial of morphine with water. The incident happen[...]
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