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Pray for Judy Pate

CN2 reported on a tragic situation caused by the lack of supervision at Helms Gordon Residential Care. The facility allowed 79 year old Judy Pate to walk away from the facility without assistance or supervision. This is reckless. The facility is home to vulnerable adults who need assistance and supervision.  The facility knew or should have

Regulatory Delays Hurt Care

Long Overdue The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ August data shows state inspectors are overdue on monitoring 4,500 nursing homes for annual standard surveys. Ridiculous. 71% of nursing homes had gone at least 16 months without a standard survey. The time between surveys ballooned during the pandemic. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) is demanding state

Underreporting Pressure Injuries

Unreliable Data Health Leaders warned families not to rely on self-reported data. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Nursing Home Compare website in the 1990s to publicly report patient safety indicators for every nursing facility in the nation. Nursing homes self-report quality measures or clinical indicators to CMS. This data

Fraud on the Court?

Karma for Hubris? Another obnoxious defense lawyer learns about karma. Robert McKenna III appeared in an online video bragging of getting his client off for malpractice. He was celebrating and apparently admitting fraud. A video of McKenna’s boasts were then posted to his firm’s social media page. The firm removed it amid backlash in online

“I declassify everything”

This is insane. Does Trump really think anyone would believe this nonsense? Trump on declassifying documents: “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. “If you’re the President of the United States, you can declassify just by saying ‘it’s declassified’ – even by thinking about it. “I declassified everything.”#Hannity pic.twitter.com/CTCxybMNmT — Jamie

DOJ to Retry Esformes

Health Care Fraud CNBC reported that the Justice Department will retry sleazy nursing home owner Philip Esformes. Criminal charges include health-care fraud. The Justice Department obtained an indictment of Esformes for the largest health-care fraud scheme ever prosecuted by the department. The department said the scheme spanned two decades. The amount of the fraud exceeds an

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