Iowa families will soon be able to keep a closer eye on their loved ones living in a nursing home, thanks tor House File 537 which will allow security cameras to be installed inside a resident’s room. The bill comes on the heels of repeated incidents of abuse, neglect and under-staffing at facilities across the state.
A South Carolina woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a medical tech company because her husband died from a rare infection linked to a recalled medical device used during his heart surgery. The woman’s husband was diagnosed with mycobacterium chimaera after his surgery, an infection
Last week Biden announced $4.9 billion of student debt cancellation for 74,000 borrowers. Nearly 30,000 of these borrowers had been in repayment for at least 20 years but never got the relief they should have. 44,000 had earned debt forgiveness after 10 years of public service as teachers, nurses, and firefighters. The total number of borrowers
I have seen several articles discussing how immigration may help with the staffing shortages in long term care industry. Better pay and training with decent working conditions would help too. While hospitals and staffing agencies say there is a shortage of workers, what nurses, unions, and researchers argue is that, rather, there’s a shortage of
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