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Report Finds Nursing Home Administrator Hours Down 20% Since Pandemic

May 2, 2023

Nursing Home Administrator Hours Down 20% Since Pandemic: The Long Term Care Community Coalition (“LTCCC”) reported: “nursing home administrators are providing less time in their facilities compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to payroll-based journal data, nursing h[...]

Almost One-Third Of U.S. Nursing Homes Overdue For Inspections

April 22, 2023

One-Third Of U.S. Nursing Homes Overdue For Inspections: Newsweek reported in early March 2023: “About 4,500 of the nation’s more than 15,000 nursing homes were reported overdue for an inspection as of mid-February, federal health data shows. Of those, more than 1,500 facilities’[...]

OIG Report: 44% Of Nursing Homes Cited For Infection Prevention And Control Deficiencies

November 6, 2022

44% Of Nursing Homes Cited For Infection Prevention Deficiencies: The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a report in July 2022 entitled “Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied With Federal Requirements for Infection Prevention an[...]

CFPB Report Highlights Nursing Homes’ Illegal Collections Practices

September 15, 2022

CFPB Report Highlights Nursing Homes’ Illegal Collections Practices: Although the Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA) prevents a nursing home “from requiring a person other than the resident to assume personal responsibility for any cost of the resident’s care,” some nursing homes and debt co[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Revives Nursing Home Turn And Reposition Case

July 10, 2022

Court Revives Nursing Home Turn And Reposition Case: In its unpublished opinion dated May 4, 2022, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held: “Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to plaintiff, there is a genuine question of m[...]

North Carolina Nursing Home Had Three Staff For 98 Residents When Two Discovered Dead

April 18, 2022

Pine Ridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Thomasville, North Carolina was visited by police officers on January 16, 2022 during a snowstorm after receiving calls that staff could not be contacted by telephone and had not been seen by some residents of the facility. When Thomasville police offic[...]

Nursing Home Industry Groups Say Nursing Home Care Improved During COVID-19 Pandemic

March 31, 2022

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) released a “fact sheet” on March 24, 2022 entitled “Nursing Home Quality Improvement During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in which they state: “America’s nursing home caregivers delive[...]

New York Nursing Home Cited For Giving Another Resident’s Medications To Discharged Resident, Leading To Kidney Failure And Cardiac Arrest

March 14, 2022

The New York State Department of Health (“Department”) cited a New York nursing home on October 25, 2021 for providing a resident who was being discharged with the medications for another resident, thereby causing the discharged resident to suffer kidney failure and cardiac arrest due to[...]

Florida’s Legislature Proposes To Reduce Nursing Home Care Requirements

February 15, 2022

CS/SB 804, which the Florida Senate Health Policy Committee voted 9-1 to approve on February 10, 2022, would amend multiple sections of the Florida Statutes to modify nursing home staffing requirements. The bill modifies the definition of “resident care plan” and defines the terms “direct care[...]

North Carolina Nursing Home Resident Ate A Mouse

December 4, 2021

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Statement of Deficiencies report for Accordius Health at Salisbury (North Caroline) generated as a result of a survey done at the facility on September 3, 2021 stated, in part: “Nurse #1 stated on the eve[...]

AARP Report: 30 Percent Of Nursing Homes Face Staffing Shortages

November 14, 2021

AARP reports: “Nearly a third of the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes recently reported a shortage of nurses or aides, according to a new AARP analysis of government data, raising concerns about resident care at a time when many facilities are still battling COVID-19. The numbers represent t[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Requires Arbitration Of Nursing Home Resident’s Death Claim

October 7, 2021

In its Order filed on September 14, 2021, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in a nursing home negligence case involving the death of a resident in which the nursing home was seeking an order that the claim be arbitrated: “the circumst[...]

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