Poor Design As a nursing home lawyer, I have seen dozens of cases involving avoidable infections that lead to fatal sepsis. Poor design. Inadequate training. Insufficient staff. Poor infection prevention and control has been a problem in the industry for decades. It has gotten worse in the last couple of years. The COVID-19 pandemic has

Medically Necessary “Quality of life is medically necessary.” Skilled Nursing News had a conversation with Melody Taylor Stark. They discussed how nursing homes can increase quality as well as quantity of life. Stark believes that any changes need to place the residents’ autonomy and dignity at their center. “Mental wellness is huge. That’s just a

UNI Global Union, based in Switzerland, represents more than 20 million workers from over 150 different countries. They represent and support the fastest growing sectors in the world – skills and services. Caregivers have perpetually precarious working conditions. Burn-out, low pay, and lack of benefits makes the job difficult. Understaffing is unsafe forcing nursing homes

The October KFF Health Tracking Poll finds a large majority (79%) of the public do not want the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions, up 17 percentage points since last year when 62% held this view. Trump has said he wants justices who would “do the

545 Children At least 60 under 5 years old.  Lost. Misplaced. Endangered. In 2017, the Trump administration implemented their most controversial immigration policy. Separating young children and babies from their mothers. This was meant to deter future conduct and not punish the children or the parents. That is certainly not what happened. Now, at least,

According to former White House Chief of Staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, “The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”