Dying Broke, the investigative series, uses KFF polling, original analysis and interviews with experts and impacted individuals and their families to examine the challenges facing families and caregivers in navigating long-term care. The project found that nearly three million older Americans who need long-term help are not receiving it, in large part because of the
Maya Goldman at Axios wrote about a recent Gallup survey showing people do not like nursing homes. Americans give nursing homes an average D+ grade for quality of care. No one wants to go to a nursing home when they could no longer care for themselves, according to a new survey from West Health and Gallup.
In June 2023, the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) released a new report titled “They Make You Pay: How Fear of Retaliation Silences Residents in America’s Nursing Homes.” It is made worse from the unsafe staffing at most facilities. Understaffing in America’s nursing homes is lethal. The Economic Policy Institute found that long-term care workers (over
JDSupra reported on the $10 million jury verdict in a novel corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) case. The jury found in favor of a physician hospitalist group that claimed a management company repeatedly broke its promise to comply with the state’s CPOM prohibition, putting profits over patients, among other wrongdoings. The case is featured this
The Altoona Mirror reported the prison sentence for nursing home operator Samuel Joseph Zaffuto. The former CEO at Christ the King Manor was sentenced to state prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Zaffuto siphoned funds from the nursing home to pay for vacations, vehicle purchases and his family. His crimes began as early as May
Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) and Providence Administrative Consulting Services (PACS) spoke at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) conference. Omega is the largest owner of nursing homes in the United States, with a portfolio of about $10 billion worth of real estate, 80% of which is skilled nursing. PACS operates