Category: Advocacy

Broken System

Broken System “The system is broken. Covid didn’t make it dysfunctional, but Covid showed that it was broken and dysfunctional. We are center stage, in the spotlight — whether we like it or not.” -advocate Robert Kramer Suzy Khimm is a national investigative reporter for NBC News based in Washington, D.C. She wrote a great

Deinstitutionalization

Deinstitutionalization Politico had a great article about the loneliness at institutional nursing homes and how that affected Bill Thomas to make change. Thomas previously pioneered a philosophy that gave nursing home residents more control over their lives. He advocated a more holistic view of caring for older adults. He emphasized individualized nursing care, but also

Impressive Editorial

Haider Warraich is a cardiologist, researcher, and writer at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. Views expressed are not employers’. He wrote the below as an editorial for StatNews. Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends

Abuse of Power

Caregivers have a lot of control and power over our loved ones. We expect them to be caring, competent, and conscious. Selling or stealing narcotics, opioids, and other medication is an abuse of power. Dangerous Opioids Fox4KC reported an investigation into heroin overdoses at a nursing home in St. Louis. Police discovered a nurse supplied

Stern Sentenced

Greed The U.S. Department of Justice sent a press release on a recent Connecticut embezzlement case. Chaim Stern received 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzlement and tax offenses related to his operation of nursing homes. Stern was the owner and operator of the Bridgeport Health Care Center (“BHCC”),

Miracle Transplant

Sonia Sein got the first-ever human trachea transplant at Mount Sinai in New York. The trachea is basically a tube that transports air to and from the lungs. The medical team performed the first complete surgical transplant of a windpipe. She is breathing freely again after getting the unusual transplant. Sonia Sein spent years “trying to

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$1.05 Million Largest Nursing Home Jury Award in Spartanburg History

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