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Deporting Caregivers

The Trump Administration’s unlawful immigration crackdown is hurting the long-term healthcare industry, as nursing homes and care providers are losing their foreign-born employees and are struggling to hire replacements. According to data provided by LeadingAge, foreign-born workers make up 30% of the nursing home housekeeping and maintenance workforce. That is compared to 19% of the

Transition and Diversion Waiver.

News10NBC has been investigating the conditions in Waterview Height facility in Charlotte, New York. Residents and their families felt that they had no other option but to use the facility. However, a “little-known program” exists that offers a better alternative for families. Carol Poupore and Clarence Richard Poupore, Rick, had been married for nearly three

Man arrested after allegedly raping nursing home patient

Nursing home article reminds us of the failures of those protecting our elders. In a sickening incident that highlights the consistent shortcomings of assisted living facilities and nursing homes, 68-year-old Mitchell Noe has been arrested for raping a nursing home patient near the end of May. Noe allegedly forced the vulnerable elder to perform oral

Mass Deportation Affects Health Care

What happens when nursing homes that are already severely understaffed are forced to lose even more staff? Americans are soon to find out, as the Trump administration continues to end the legal status of immigrants working in health care fields and deport them from the United States. Nursing facilities are known to rely heavily on

Nurse fired for meth use but is rehired.

The Iowa Dispatch reported another drug diversion by a nursing home nurse.  After 20 years of work at the Iowan nursing home, Friendship Haven, in July 2024, nurse Lacy Dencklau tested positive for methamphetamine.  Seven months earlier in December 2023, the nursing home’s own Human Resources director reported that nurse Dencklau had “‘not been acting right.’”

Have They No Decency?

Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation called the bill “the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.” Here are seven things everyone should know about Trump’s spending bill: 1. Trump’s bill will cut $980 billion from Medicaid Approximately 71 million people rely on Medicaid for healthcare. In rural communities, “where Medicaid covers

$15 Million Awarded in Highway Collision

$42 Million Given Back for over 8,000 Investors

$1.05 Million Largest Nursing Home Jury Award in Spartanburg History

$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

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