Nursing home rankings can be helpful but often are misleading if based on unreliable data. For example, the State had an interesting article listing the worst nursing homes in South Carolina. The rankings were based on based on CMS’ five-star rating system for nursing homes. The CMS star rating system is based on staffing, health

SavaSeniorCare will cease to exist as a company and transition into “regional operators” by the end of January 2023. CMS data showed as September 2022, Sava downsized to the 11th-largest U.S. nursing home operator. Sava had 92 facilities. Sava blames COVID and not fiscal mismanagement. The operator and its related entities agreed to pay $11.2 million

The satirical Onion had a funny “article” called “Childless Man Wonders Who’ll Be There To Neglect Him When He’s Old.” “Fretting anxiously over what the future held for him, local childless man Gary D’Amore reportedly wondered Tuesday who would be there to neglect him when he grew old. “Most of my friends can count on

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell stupidly decided that due process required punitive damages should be a single digit ratio to compensatory damages. In that case, the Supreme Court overturned a punitive damages award with a 145-to-1 ratio to compensatory damages. Recently Reuters had an article

On April 9, Noemi Noto suffered head trauma after she hit the ground during the altercation with another resident at the Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. The resident died from her injuries three days later at Staten Island University North Hospital. The coroner and medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Officials believe that

Each year in the United States, sepsis kills more than a quarter million people—more than stroke, diabetes, or lung cancer. Currently, there’s no single test for sepsis. Health-care providers must rely on their own clinical impressions. The SIRS criteria identifies at risk patients if two of four clinical signs—body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, white-blood-cell count—are abnormal.