Nursing home operators are seeing occupancy rebound as staff members start coming back. Despite seeing record-breaking COVID-19 case counts during the omicron spike, skilled nursing facilities were able to weather the storm with minimal deaths among residents, according to new analysis from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. NIC data analyst Omar
The American Prospect published an article about greedy nursing home operators called “The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto.” Nursing home owners admit they make billions a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients. Last spring, disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a simple but sweeping reform that would have required nursing homes to spend a majority
Staffing at nursing homes are unsafe. Turnover and retention are major problems for quality of care. Facilities do not provide enough staff to meet the needs of the residents. Researchers have known for decades that these factors are critical for quality of care in facilities. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services confirmed the causal
Visitation and Vaccination Visitation rules limiting visits in most facilities eased as the CDC reported that COVID is in decline. CMS recommends long-term care facilities test visitors for COVID-19 before allowing them entry into their buildings. Nursing homes must allow visitation for residents “at all times” under CMS standards. CMS earlier reemphasized that providers can only
Registered Sexual Offenders The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on horrible incidents at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. Nursing assistant Shelly Houk caught resident Richard Walter assaulting a demented “child-like” woman. She saw Walter with his pants down forcing the woman’s head in his lap. Houk later testified at Walter’s preliminary hearing on charges of sexual assault. The
Eilon Caspi is the Assistant Research Professor of Health, Intervention, and Policy at the University of Connecticut. He wrote a fantastic article about resident to resident assaults in nursing homes. These preventable incidents are prevalent in nursing homes. He is a gerontologist and dementia behavior specialist. He literally wrote the book! His film, “Fighting for Dignity,”