“We expect to see frivolous appeals.” –attorney Ben C. Brodhead told Law360. See Law360 report. The ABA Journal had an interesting article about the Georgia lawsuit alleging that Baker Donelsen and American Family Insurance conspired to spy on a litigant with illegally placed electronic devices. Judge Kimberly K. Anderson of DeKalb County, Georgia refused to
CMS updated federal guidance for nursing homes. The updates had been due since 2019, but were delayed by the agency for additional review prior to the pandemic. To support the Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities Requirements for Participation, CMS issued surveyor guidance. The guidance clarifies requirements and compliance. CMS is highlighting the benefits of reducing the number
Staffing Crisis AARP released a good article on the industry’s labor shortage. Staff turnover was already “astronomically high,” says Ashvin Gandhi, a health economist at UCLA and coauthor of a national study that found the median annual turnover rate for nearly all U.S. nursing homes in 2017 and 2018 was 94 percent. Decades of chronic understaffing has
Emergency Preparedness Lawmakers have since passed legislation mandating nursing homes to have powered generators. A new bill requires Louisiana nursing homes’ emergency preparedness plans to be approved by the state’s Department of Health each year. Providers must review and update its emergency preparedness plan and submit the full plan to the Louisiana Department of Health by
McKnight’s reported that alternative medications replaced dangerous antipsychotic medications among Veterans Health Administration patients. A new analysis shows Veterans nursing homes significantly reduced antipsychotic medication use. A University of Michigan research team published findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry about antipsychotic use among Veterans Health Administration patients. Antipsychotic prescribing dropped from 33.7% to 27.5% from fiscal
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