Dr. Brannon Traxler is the Public Health Director for South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Services. She is concerned about the Delta variant. The Delta variant carries a higher rate of transmission. The variant also has a greater chance of severe disease than other COVID-19 variants. She is begging younger adults to get vaccinated.
Fatal Car Accidents Lawyer The motor vehicle is so important to our everyday living. Making things that are not normally in our scope, easily available to us. In any case, the car is as risky as it could be important, and many lives are lost because of auto collisions regularly. A few things have an
Unsafe Staffing The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) represent more than 14,000 nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the country. They released of a recent survey of nursing home and assisted living providers. The results show the urgent need to increase staffing by providing a living wage and
North Carolina may provide a Medicaid spending increase meant to increase caregiver wages. As a nursing home attorney, I have heard this before. Years ago, California raised Medicaid reimbursement rates to increase staffing at nursing homes, instead the money went to management salaries and related entities. Adam Sholar is the president and CEO of the
The Chicago Sun Times reported the problems in Illinois nursing homes during the last year. In 2019, Illinois ranked last in nursing home staffing. The neglect and abuse exist despite getting bailouts and windfalls from the government. Taxpayers sent $240 million to nursing homes to address staffing numbers. This included at least $880 million for
WREG reported on the tragic “dumping” of Noah Mangum by Collierville Nursing and Rehabilitation. Collierville Nursing and Rehab is a facility with a history of documented problems. The facility had three outbreaks during the pandemic, at least four people died. Mangum called the News Channel 3 Investigators after seeing reports on problems at nursing homes