The recent clemency granted to James Burkhart, the convicted former CEO of American Senior Communities (ASC), is detrimental to those advocating for accountability in the nursing home industry. Burkhart orchestrated a $19 million fraud scheme that misdirected funds that should have been used for improving the care of vulnerable residents. His scheme exploited resources that
The $45 million settlement between the New York Attorney General’s Office and Centers for Care LLC is another example of troubling patterns of financial exploitation in the nursing home industry being exposed. Centers for Care, which operates over 30 facilities across New York, and even more facilities across the Northeast United States, misappropriated an estimated
The North Dakota Monitor reported the critical need for safe staffing levels. The Biden administration’s newly implemented staffing standards for nursing homes mark a long-overdue effort to address systemic neglect in the industry. These standards require at least 0.55 hours (33 minutes) of RN care per resident per day and 2.45 hours (2 hours and
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
A researcher from the University of Texas found a pattern of poor health outcomes in skilled nursing facilities that fraudulently overbilled Medicare. The paper, “Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry,” revealed how patients at fraudulent Skilled Nursing Facilities suffered worse health outcomes because those facilities sought to increase revenue rather than
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