Category: Staffing

Criminal charges against nursing home staffers

Many staff members of the Colonial Heights Nursing Home were seen before a judge because of an investigation associated with elder abuse within the facility. The facility failed to provide services necessary to maintain the health, safety, and well-being of the residents. The resident was left in her feces and urine, not properly turned, and not

Falsifying Staffing Records

McKnight’s had an article showing how the profitable nursing home industry is whining about regulatory oversight. According to Foley & Lardner partner Matt Krueger, the increased “scrutiny” faced by nursing home providers since 2020 includes an “overall increased and increasingly hostile approach by surveyors in the quality-of-care area. Another area that I think we continue

Unintended Consequences

The nursing home industry is already struggling with unsafe staffing shortages, financial instability from tunneling to related entities, and feeble enforcement of regulations. It is a disgrace how greed and incompetence have ruined the industry. Skilled Nursing News reported that Trump’s arbitrary enforcement of immigration policies will accelerate the industry’s decline and cause more neglect

Will The Program Survive Trump’s Cuts?

Before Biden left office, CMS developed a new program that is now in jeopardy under Trump’s federal freeze. The program was needed relief and good news for understaffed nursing homes. CMS proposed a grant of upwards $50,000 for nursing students seeking Registered Nursing careers and experience. In order to qualify, students will have to work

Negligent Hiring

The Advocate had a good article on the lawsuit filed after video evidence showed a resident was physically, verbally, and sexually assaulted at her nursing home. Dana Verdugo sued Madison de Lafayette nursing home on behalf of her mother after she became aware of this alleged abuse. Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s investigator informed her of a video

Facility Assessments

The nursing home industry is complaining about new facility assessment requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) that aim to guide safe staffing decisions. However, CMS provided Critical Element Pathways to all facilities to make it easy to implement the new rules.  CMS updated the existing requirements by expanding guidance on data-driven and evidence-based metrics

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