Nationally, many nursing homes are owned by groups of out-of-state and unknown investors who have formed limited liability corporations to avoid accountability and operate each of their facilities. The facility owners are affiliated with other for-profit vendors that sell their services — such as management, staffing and resident therapy — to the nursing homes. Such
Kandus Jellison is a certified nursing assistant. She sued her former employer for wrongful termination. The lawsuit alleges that supervisors at Oakwood Specialty Care failed to care for a resident’s wellbeing after a fall, and denied his rights to participate in his care and contact anyone he wished. She was wrongly fired for disputing a
The United States spends an average of about $13,000 per person every year on health care. Nearly 70% of seniors will need long-term care services as they age, per Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The American health care system maximizes the profits of health care companies at the expense of families’ budgets. No other country comes
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
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