California Nursing Home Sued For 91-Year-Old’s Fall
September 5, 2014
On August 27, 2014, a California nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed against an Arroyo Grande nursing home for the serious injuries suffered by a 91-year-old resident after she slipped and fell to the floor in her bathroom because the nursing home staff failed to help her. The nursing home m[...]
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Nursing Homes May Manipulate The Medicare Star-Rating System
August 30, 2014
Medicare employs a five-star quality rating system for nursing homes throughout the United States. Nursing homes that receive a five-star rating are supposed to be the best in the nation – only about one-fifth of the more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States have received a five-sta[...]
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Florida Nursing Home Malpractice Case Alleges Wrongful Death
August 9, 2014
A Florida nursing home negligence case that was filed in July 2014 alleges that the Florida nursing home, its management companies, and two former administrators of the nursing home are responsible for the poor care and the resulting death of the nursing home resident who had lived in the nursing [...]
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Nursing Home Falls
May 9, 2014
Too many elderly and infirmed residents of nursing homes in the United States suffer preventable falls that result in further physical or mental deterioration, including fractures that may require surgery or even an untimely and unexpected death. Many nursing home falls are foreseeable and preventab[...]
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Cost Of Long Term Care In The United States In 2014
April 26, 2014
A recently published survey of the cost of long term care in the United States in 2014 reported that the cost of long term care has steadily increased over the last eleven years but that the cost of long term care provided at home has grown at a lesser rate than the cost of long term care provid[...]
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