A criminal case out of Florida exposes a form of elder abuse in assisted living facilities that often receives less attention but is just as serious: financial exploitation from inside the facility itself. Authorities allege that the executive director of an assisted living facility stole jewelry from residents’ rooms and pawned the items for personal
Vermont has quietly spent tens of millions of public dollars bailing out nursing homes that cannot keep their doors open without emergency relief. According to recent reporting, the state has issued roughly $38 million in extraordinary financial assistance over the past several years, much of it tied to staffing costs. What was once meant to
Recent investigations in New Jersey have once again exposed the same troubling pattern inside the nursing home industry: severe neglect inside facilities paired with financial practices designed to move public dollars away from resident care. As reports continue to document unsafe conditions, abuse, and understaffing, the legislation that could help regulators and families understand where
When a state approves new owners for troubled nursing homes, it needs to do more than sign off on paper qualifications. It needs to protect the people living inside those buildings. In Vermont this year, a longstanding ownership transfer process quietly moved six large facilities out of the hands of one operator and into the
A nursing home owner who cheated residents, staff, and taxpayers may have secured a presidential pardon, but Arkansas courts are making clear that it doesn’t wipe away the harm he caused. Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of the Skyline nursing home chain, still has prison time to serve for his state-level crimes — and a
A 92-year-old nursing home resident was beaten to death just hours after a facility moved a known violent resident into his room. The man who died had dementia. He was frail, vulnerable, and dependent on the facility to protect him from foreseeable harm. The danger was not hidden. It was introduced. According to reporting, the
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