A recent study conducted by Matthew P. Maughan examined more than 9,000 US nursing homes across 610 different chains. Maughan told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: “Large chains benefit in terms of administrative efficiency, but staffing is one of those inputs to the process that does not ‘scale’ well; larger employers can get by on less
Monica Blackwell has been accused of taking prescription painkillers and medication for anxiety and panic disorders from 13 nursing home patients. Blackwell was an agency nurse who admitted to investigators that she stole the medications for her own use, according to the criminal complaint. Narcotics agent, Brian Kosoglow, said that the detailed accounts of patients
This past spring in Provincetown, a patient checked into residence at a Seashore Point nursing home for rehabilitation after breaking their leg. During the two-and-a-half-month stay, the patient was taken to Cape Cod Hospital for multiple infected wounds. Once the family had removed the patient from the facility, their loved one was rushed to the
McKnight’s reported how the nursing home industry is confident the safe staffing rule will be removed by the new Administration despite evidence it will lead to neglect and abuse. Clearly, the nursing home lobbyists owns Trump and the Republicans. The skilled nursing sector met with the Trump team before Election Day to discuss concerns with
“Across the state, we’re showing a need of 13,000-plus beds. Of course, in your most populous counties like Charleston and Beaufort, we’re showing need in the thousands. There is a need for expanding the beds.” –Dave Fiorini, a senior consultant with the S.C. Department of Public Health, told the Times and Democrat. 2024 South Carolina
Throughout the U.S., more than one in five nursing home residents receive the power and mind-altering antipsychotic drugs. That is more than ten times the rate of the general population, though the conditions treated by these drugs do not increase with age. In Mississippi, that goes up to one in four residents. According to federal
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