Systemic Problems The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a failure to protect nursing home residents and staff. As a nursing home lawyer for over 25 years, these failures were long-standing and systemic. Persistent problems with nursing home care existed for years. Often because of too few and inadequately trained frontline staff. Solutions do exist. Safe staffing, transparency,
Occupancy Declines Fox Business reported that families continue to choose home health and other options to avoid nursing homes. COVID-19 has reshaped the future of the nursing home industry. Americans rely on institutions to care for vulnerable seniors. Nursing-home use in the U.S. has been declining gradually for years. In 2019, occupancy was 80%, down
New Leadership Chiquita Brooks-LaSure would be the first Black woman to head CMS. CMS administers Medicare, Medicaid, children’s health insurance and the Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare.” The programs cover more than 130 million people, from newborns to nursing home residents. Brooks-LaSure was previously deputy director at CMS responsible for insurance markets during the
Lack of Communication Fox Carolina reported on one family’s complaint against a Fundamental facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Patricia Galloway’s granddaughter is concerned about lack of communication from Valley Falls Terrace nursing home. We see identical complaints as nursing home lawyers all the time. “She was beautiful on the inside and she deserved so much
The second impeachment trial of Trump started this past week. Americans clearly disapprove of Trump’s behavior which caused the insurrection. Trump’s Senate loyalists — including Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham — criticized his lawyers’ case as ineffective. However, the defense lawyers’ problem is that they cannot defend the indefensible. They know it; we know it;
KSAT reported on the tragic case of Rafael Armendariz at Golden Estates Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center. The family installed a Ring security camera in his room. This helped the family monitor his care. The staff gave timely updates on his condition. It worked well. Until the video footage recorded his death from neglect. Armendariz’s daughters
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