John Oliver on the Industry
John Oliver takes on the nursing home industry on his weekly show “Last Week Tonight”.
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John Oliver takes on the nursing home industry on his weekly show “Last Week Tonight”.
Skilled Nursing News reported a new and surprising advocate for safe, quality care at nursing homes: Investment firms! They are demanding better care because it will better guarantee their investment. Here are the demands they made regarding staffing: Adhere to best practices of safe staffing levels. Ensure adequate staff organization, appropriate working hours and protection
For-profit Healthcare People always complain about universal health care as socialism. They assume a not for profit health care system would negatively affect the quality of care. However, that does not appear to be true. For example, federal data shows that for-profit facilities were 18% less effective with preventing COVID-19 infections than nonprofit or government-run
Ways and Means Committee The Ways and Means Committee had an incredible hearing about private equity ownership in the nursing home industry. The hearing, “Examining Private Equity’s Expanded Role in the U.S. Health Care System” included witnesses calling for transparency and regulatory oversight of the private-equity investors. New York University assistant finance professor Sabrina Howell testified
Dumping and Falsifying Prosecutors in California recently brought suit against Brookdale Senior Living, Inc., the largest senior living facility operator in the United States. Brookdale gave false information to inflate their quality ratings according to California attorney general Xavier Becerra. The lawsuit against Brookdale Senior Living claims that the operator falsified staffing records in order to
Falsification Block Club Chicago reported a Chicago nursing home inspector didn’t show up to facilities for at least a year and falsified dozens of inspection reports. An “elder protective investigator” never showed up at those facilities. Instead he filed fake visit reports according to an investigation from Inspector General’s office. “The Chicago Department of Family