Randy Ellis staff writer for NewsOk.com has a sad story about a neglected resident who did not get questions or compensation because the nursing home had no assets and no liability insurance. Below are excerpts of the story: The story refers to a family who received a telephone call that their mother had been injured at The
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wrote an editorial about the nursing home industry. We have included it below. Recent revelations of shameless self-dealing, massive mismanagement and substandard care at one of the state’s largest nursing home chains, Haven Healthcare, have rightly shocked the public. Haven, which operates 15 nursing homes in the state, received tens
The News & Observer of Raleigh has an interseting article about the “new philosophy” of limiting or preventing nursing home residents from being in a wheelchair as long as the resident wants. The article argues that older people’s health, mobility and self-image can suffer from too much time in wheelchairs. More than 24,000 North Carolina
I realize that this post might be a bit off topic but it shows the arrogance of insurance companies and their contempt and disdain for the rule of law. Nursing home attorneys routinely see this when the insurance companies refuse to provide nursing home records or when they state an elderly resident’s life is not
Here is an interesting article about attorney Ken Connor’s appearance for an advocacy group for nursing home reform. The seminar was titled “Nursing Homes: A Failed Experiment,”. Connor’s appearance was sponsored by the advocacy group Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform. Connor said he classified nursing homes as “a failed experiment” because the current system puts
The headquarters of The Carlyle Group, a Wall Street Investment corporation that made our blog a few weeks ago when we wrote about its involvement with Habana Health Care Center (see Wall Street and Nursing Homes? and Nursing Home Profits), was the site of a demonstration Monday, October 22nd by nursing home advocates. The Carlyle Group