The Iowa nursing home, Bethany Life Care Center in Story City, has been fined $325 for failing to protect residents of their facility from abuse of recurring “sexual advances” made by a female resident, according to the Iowa Dispatch. According to state inspection reports, on April 20, 2025, the staff at Bethany Life Care Center
CMS has frozen all updates to the Nursing Home Care Compare website, which includes star ratings, inspection results, and other quality data. The pause began in late July 2025 as the agency transitioned its survey and certification data to the new cloud-based iQIES platform. This move is allegedly designed to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and
Skilled Nursing News had an article on updated long-term care facility standards to prevent future cases of neglect that are far too common. These new regulations apply when facility inspections or “surveys” take place. Such surveys may be difficult for facilities to prepare for, as the standards are quite detailed with over 900 pages long.
WSPA reported that a local nursing home in Greenville, S.C. has offered care so horrendous that the United States Department of Justice has stepped in to sue them, along with three other facilities. Greenville East, along with three other ProMedica-owned facilities, are being sued for their consistent failures maintain residents’ hygiene, conduct proper wound care,
“We can’t take care of you any longer,” is a message countless long-term care residents have heard from facilities soon before they are evicted from the facility and left with no place to go. Dana White and Chris Knoblock worked to capture this heartbreaking situation that too often takes place in their 12-minute short film,
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