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CMS Expands Staffing Data

Beginning January 26, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is posting new information on the Care Compare website that will help consumers have a better understanding of certain staffing information and concerns at facilities. CMS will post this information for each facility and includes: Staff turnover:  The percentage of nursing staff as well

The Jury Will Decide

The Berkshire Eagle reported on a curious case because of the differing standards of proof or evidence. How to explain? Criminal Case Police charged Louis Hansen with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, and permitting injury to an elderly person for an incident in April 2019. Hansen is a certified nursing aide for

Quality of Staff

WXXI News reported another sexual assault at a nursing home. As a nursing home attorney for over 25 years, I have never seen so many stories about sexual assaults and rape at nursing homes nationwide. The nursing home industry would rather pay rapists than provide a living wage and benefits to qualified caregivers. Quality of

Booster or Bust?

The Danger The omicron wave hit nursing homes hard. Infections among residents and staff reached record highs. CDC reports at least 40,000 residents tested positive last week alone. New weekly data show a rapid surge in cases among nursing home staff. Cases for staff hit a record high of more than 67,000 cases the first

State of the Economy

The U.S. economic news continue to impress. From Historian Heather Cox Richardson: In March, without a single Republican vote, they passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to jump-start the economy by putting money into the pockets of ordinary Americans. It worked. The new law cut child poverty in half by putting $66 billion into

Does Lindsey Graham have Dementia?

“Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way,” Graham said on the Senate floor on the night of January 6, 2021. “Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he’s been a consequential President, but today, first thing you’ll see. All I can say is

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