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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[...]

Nursing Home Capacity Has Dropped Twice As Fast Since The Pandemic

March 8, 2026

The number of licensed skilled nursing facility (SNF – nursing home) beds declined by 2.5% from 2019 to 2024, while operating capacity declined by 5.0% over the same time period. A recently published study found that the estimated operating capacity based on maximum census counts declined 5% b[...]

Florida Appellate Court Reinstates Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit That Trial Court Dismissed For Lack Of Detail

September 25, 2025

Cypress Care Center (“CCC”) is the nursing home where Linda Daughtry (“Decedent”) lived for much of March and April. Her estate later sued several defendants, alleging that they operated CCC as a high-census, high-acuity facility without providing commensurate staff. The Estate alleged that [...]

9 In 10 Nursing Homes Have Staffing Levels Below Expectations

May 13, 2025

The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) issued a report on May 2, 2025 entitled, “LTCCC Alert: Nine in 10 Nursing Homes Fall Short of Expected Staffing, New Federal Data Show (Q3 2024)” in which it found, based on its analysis of the most recent payroll-based journal (PBJ) data re[...]

Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths

December 31, 2024

The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]

Nursing Home Staffing Crisis In The United States

October 31, 2023

The American Health Care Association surveyed 524 nursing home providers in the United States between December 7 and December 16, 2022, and stated in its January 2023 report: The vast majority of nursing homes are experiencing staffing shortages and difficulties in hiring additional staff. Providers[...]

HHS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards For Nursing Homes

September 2, 2023

HHS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards: On September 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), issued a proposed rule that seeks to establish comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes—including, for[...]

Contaminated Sandwich Caused Nursing Home Resident’s Death

June 20, 2023

Contaminated Sandwich Caused Death: A lawsuit filed against a California nursing home on April 18, 2023 in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Clara alleges, in part: Richard Van Truong (“Decedent”) was an adult person and resident of San Jose, CA. He was born o[...]

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[...]

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[...]

$1M Pennsylvania Jury Verdict Against Nursing Home For Resident’s Fractures From Falls Due To Inadequate Staffing

December 22, 2017

A Pennsylvania nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1 million, which included $750,000 in punitive damages, against a Pennsylvania nursing home operator and others, for the fractures suffered by a resident as a result of multiple falls that were allegedly due to the nu[...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Affirms Class Certification In Nursing Home Understaffing Lawsuit

May 27, 2017

In its opinion delivered on May 4, 2017, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) affirmed that the lower court’s class certification was proper with regard to understaffing claims against the nursing home defendants, except for the negligence claims because the nur[...]

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