No U.S. troops are fighting in foreign wars. Crime including murders have plummeted. Overdose deaths have dropped sharply. Undocumented immigration is below where it was when Trump left office. Stocks are at an all time high. The Biden economy is growing, real wages are rising, inflation has fallen to its normal range, unemployment is at
There is a growing number of elderly adults in long-term care facilities, which creates a greater need for ombudsman staff and volunteers. Legislation by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) aims to improve the ombudsman program. Kaine says, “This legislation aims to strengthen the ombudsman program and ensure that trained professionals are available
The Supreme Court removed the broad discretion regulatory agencies possess to set rules for the entities they cover. The elimination of the “Chevron” doctrine will have significant negative implications across the nursing home industry. It may even impact the outcome of specific lawsuits challenging the CMS regulation for nursing home staffing mandates. The majority in
A recent study conducted by Matthew P. Maughan examined more than 9,000 US nursing homes across 610 different chains. Maughan told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: “Large chains benefit in terms of administrative efficiency, but staffing is one of those inputs to the process that does not ‘scale’ well; larger employers can get by on less
Juries are going “nuclear” by compensating victims with increasing large verdicts against U.S companies. This trend is making insurance policies more costly and harder to come by for those nursing homes that neglect and abuse vulnerable adults. The number of cases where the Jury awards $10 million against corporate defendants, known as “nuclear” verdicts, has
A researcher from the University of Texas found a pattern of poor health outcomes in skilled nursing facilities that fraudulently overbilled Medicare. The paper, “Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry,” revealed how patients at fraudulent Skilled Nursing Facilities suffered worse health outcomes because those facilities sought to increase revenue rather than
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